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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)
May 22, 20222 min read
Rivers and Healing
I see a lot of sermons and blogs from friends and acquaintances who do pretty much the same thing I do, which is make comment on the...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 15, 20227 min read
On the New Nature
[Sermon for Easter V (the Fourth Sunday after Easter), May 15, 2022 at St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona] ✠ In the...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 8, 20222 min read
Outside of This Fold
Twenty-first century North American culture is overwhelmingly urban. Certainly rural culture is pervasive and as long as people actually...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 1, 20223 min read
Second Chances
We have all had at least one situation where we have handled ourselves so poorly that we believe it to be unsalvageable. The worst are...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 24, 20223 min read
Thomas Calls Shenanigans
We are a sheltered culture. We are surrounded by all sorts of violence in media, we see war in distant nations brought home to us by...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 16, 20222 min read
What Wondrous Love Is This?
The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of, if not the most mystifying series of events in the history of the cosmos. Why...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 10, 20222 min read
Kenosis
Today at Mass we will hear St. Paul proclaim: "Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 3, 20222 min read
A Way in the Wilderness
If you are like me, you are tired of the same garbage assaulting us daily. We are constantly barraged by demands for our loyalty, from...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 27, 20223 min read
Reconciliation
If we have learned anything in the past decade (or longer if we really have been paying attention), it is that breakdowns in...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 20, 20223 min read
Fig Trees and Olive Grafts
I once was listening to a radio talk-show (unwillingly, the foreman dictated what got played) where the host was taking callers on a...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 13, 20222 min read
The Plague of Ignoring Good Advice
The Homeric cycle of Greek mythology, plundered by Classical writers for story materials, again by Mediaeval writers for ideas, and still...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 6, 20223 min read
Until an Opportune Time
Many of us think that once Our Lord faced down Satan in the wilderness He was free and clear and the Adversary left Him alone after that....
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 27, 20222 min read
Just War and Transfiguration
Normally on this last Sunday before Lent I speak on the Orthodox doctrines of God's uncreated energies, particularly the Uncreated Light...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 20, 20226 min read
On Forgiveness
[Sermon for St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, on Sexagesima Sunday, February 20, 2022 (https://stmarysphoenix.org)] ✠ In the...
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Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 13, 20223 min read
Blessing and Woe
So who is right? Some Christians state that our primary focus should be on the eradication of sin in our personal lives, expressly...
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