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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)
Apr 2, 20232 min read
The Price of Challenge
Since the Roman Catholic Church's revision of its lectionary (schedule of readings for services), the Sunday before Easter, known as Palm...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 26, 20231 min read
Hope
This world is a rough and unforgiving place. Disaster, sickness, others' unrestrained behaviour, all of this reflects a cosmos where...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 19, 20233 min read
Expectations
Normally I toss these reflections off before heading to Mass, but events today (including my web client deciding to bog down like cement)...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 12, 20237 min read
On Jews, Samaritans, and Racism
[Sermon to be delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, the Third Sunday in Lent, March 12, 2023] ✠ In the Name of the...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 5, 20233 min read
Belief, Rebirth, and Billboards
We've all seen them. Perhaps some haven't, or perhaps you have passed by them without noticing. Highways in North America have...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 26, 20233 min read
Food, Security, and Riches
It's amazing how as Westerners we have at our fingertips. Many of us have plenty to eat and adequate or even plush and stylish shelter,...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 19, 20237 min read
On the Great Plan
[Sermon to be delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Quinquagesima Sunday, February 19, 2023] ✠ In the Name of the...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 12, 20232 min read
Near Occasions
People who get a little tweaked at rules and the "Thou shalt nots" that the Church has conveyed to us over the centuries often say, "Why...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 5, 20232 min read
Scribes and Pharisees
"Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Mt. 5.20) Well, isn't...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 29, 20232 min read
Become Blessed: Acts of Mercy
(Readings for Mass for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany can be found here.) The way and the message of the cross, as St. Paul writes, is...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 22, 20233 min read
Seeing a Great Light
One of the strangest concepts we had to grasp in science class in school was the concept that light is "invisible." As concepts go, it is...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 15, 20237 min read
Reprise: The Lamb of God
I did a sermon for the Order of Preachers (see here for the text) that I have reworked somewhat to be delivered today at Mass at St....
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 8, 20232 min read
Baptism and Perichoresis
Sorry to throw a $50 word at you right at the beginning... Trinity Sunday is months off...we still have to get through Epiphanytide,...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Controversy and (Re)naming
For centuries the Octave Day of Christmas (the one-week mark or eighth day), January 1, was marked as the Feast of the Circumcision. The...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 25, 20222 min read
A New Nature for Us Is Born
Christmas sentimentality is all around us, with "Peace on Earth" and "Joy to the World" ringing in the rafters, often met with warm...
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