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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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On Trust and Decision
[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for The...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 28, 20216 min read
It's Not Just a Bath
Today's readings for Mass are all about water. Baptism in particular. In Lent, historically, we prepared newcomers to the faith for...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 21, 20212 min read
On Veils and the Uncreated Light
[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 15, 20216 min read
And She Got Up and Served Them
Today's Gospel for Mass (St. Mk. 1.29-39) has a line that has always bothered me, so I stuck that line in the title for a contemplation...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 7, 20212 min read
Preparing for Lent-What People See Us Do
In the older liturgical cycles this Sunday is known as Septuagesima, which is the Latin word for 70th. The idea is that it was roughly...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Getting Our Hustle On
Today's Mass readings are that rare and golden treasure trove where they all have a readily discernable theme running through all of them....
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 24, 20212 min read
On Photini, Equal to the Apostles, and Us
[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 17, 20216 min read
A Tale of Two Baptisms
Today at Mass we today hear readings about baptism. The lesson from Genesis talks of the moving of the Spirit upon the waters, the...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 10, 20212 min read
And Deliver Us from Evil...
One of our choices (there are three today!) for the Gospel reading for Mass is the story of the Flight to Egypt and the Slaughter of the...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 3, 20212 min read
And the Darkness Did Not Overcome
Until the fashion came about to rank all Sundays ahead of major feast days, today would have been celebrated as the Feast of St. John the...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 27, 20202 min read
Il est né, le Divin Enfant
I once saw a music video by the group Siouxsie and the Banshees performing the French Christmas Carol Il est né, le Divin Enfant. ...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 25, 20201 min read
On an Annunciation in Advent
[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 20, 20206 min read
"I am not the Christ"
When I was in college at the University of New Brunswick I had opportunity to sing with the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, and one of...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 13, 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...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 6, 20202 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...
Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 29, 20203 min read
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