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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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Children of God
One of the readings offered for today speaks to a current debate among Christians as to what exactly constitutes a child of God. Here it...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jun 5, 20222 min read
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Invitation
(The readings for Sunday Mass today may be found here.) There has been a lot of noise about the Church being the Body of Christ, about it...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 29, 20222 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 22, 20222 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 15, 20227 min read
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Outside of This Fold
Twenty-first century North American culture is overwhelmingly urban. Certainly rural culture is pervasive and as long as people actually...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 8, 20222 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 1, 20223 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 24, 20223 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 16, 20222 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 10, 20222 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 3, 20222 min read
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Reconciliation
If we have learned anything in the past decade (or longer if we really have been paying attention), it is that breakdowns in...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 27, 20223 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 20, 20223 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 13, 20222 min read
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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....

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 6, 20223 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 27, 20222 min read
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