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Ut Aliis Tradere
Here follows a blog containing occasional sermons and musings on the Gospel reading for the Mass of the Sunday or Holy Day.
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 6, 20202 min read
Isaiah, John, Jesus, and Good News
Earlier this year the Bible Study group at our parish finished an extended march through the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. This is NOT an...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 29, 20203 min read
Anglicans, Catholics, the Orthodox, and the Second Coming
Many Evangelical and Charismatic Christian denominations make much about the second coming of Christ. It pervades their media, their...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 22, 20206 min read
On the Kingship of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
[Sermon preached at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday, November 22, 2020, the...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 15, 20202 min read
The Day of the Lord
Many Christians and those influenced by North American Christian culture have an existential dread called variously the Day of the Lord,...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 8, 20202 min read
Grieving Differently
Normally my comments are about the day's Gospel, but today I wish to turn our attention to the Epistle (1 Thes. 4.13-18). In the West,...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 1, 20202 min read
Sainthood Ain't No Picnic...
We've all heard it. Someone or another, undergoing some arduous and to all onlookers unnecessary tribulation gets accused of "bucking...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Oct 25, 20202 min read
An Uncomfortable Question
Jesus had to put up with a lot of challenges to His teaching. Not only was He constantly badgered about His credentials, He also...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Oct 18, 20206 min read
On St. Luke and the Book of Life
[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Oct 11, 20203 min read
But I Have Nothing to Wear
Jesus loved to use parables. A good storyteller knows how to grab an audience, keep their attention, and get the message across, whether...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Oct 4, 20203 min read
Viticulture and Bad Wine
So last Sunday I preached a sermon that included the parable that we read at today's Mass. The parable is a rousing condemnation of how...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Sep 27, 20205 min read
On Flipping Expectations
[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Sep 20, 20202 min read
Kvetch, Kvetch, Kvetch
We have elevated whining to an art form. Seriously, an accomplished person can take their major (and especially minor) afflictions, spin...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Sep 13, 20203 min read
Grudges, Vendettas, and Shunning
We humans have an extraordinary capacity for neither forgiving nor forgetting. Personal and tribal and national affronts get carved in...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Sep 6, 20203 min read
New Year's Resolutions
The beginning of a solar year is totally arbitrary. We celebrate the start of our new cycle around the sun on January 1, but the Romans,...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Aug 30, 20206 min read
On Spiritual Delusion
[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...
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