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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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When Feedback Is Good
A feeback loop is a process where output of a system at least partially is used as input to the same system to keep it running and to...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 14, 20232 min read
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On Allegiances and Homelands
[Sermon for St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 7, 2023] ✠In the Name of the Father, and of...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
May 7, 20237 min read
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They Know My Voice
We have all seen the pictures of Christ the Good Shepherd. Dressed in the artist's vision of what either Jesus would have worn or a...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 30, 20233 min read
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Recognizing Jesus
Some of us know well the story of today's Gospel (Luke 24.13-35, please read it along with the other texts for today), some of us don't. ...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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On Blessing, Honour, and Faith
[Sermon for St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Thomas Sunday (Easter II, Dominica in Albis), April 16, 2023] ✠In the Name of...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 16, 20237 min read
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The Tomb's Destruction
"“Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come,...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 9, 20232 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Apr 2, 20232 min read
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Hope
This world is a rough and unforgiving place. Disaster, sickness, others' unrestrained behaviour, all of this reflects a cosmos where...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 26, 20231 min read
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Expectations
Normally I toss these reflections off before heading to Mass, but events today (including my web client deciding to bog down like cement)...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 19, 20233 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 12, 20237 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Mar 5, 20233 min read
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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,...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 26, 20233 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 19, 20237 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 12, 20232 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Feb 5, 20232 min read
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