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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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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 29, 20232 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 22, 20233 min read
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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....

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 15, 20237 min read
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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,...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 8, 20232 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Jan 1, 20232 min read
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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...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 25, 20222 min read
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For God Is with Us
If we have been paying attention (granted, our society is quite attention deficit and hyperactive, so this may be asking a bit much), we...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 18, 20222 min read
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On the Witness of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
[Sermon for Gaudete Sunday (III Advent Roman/VI Advent "Ancient"), December 11, 2022, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona.]...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 11, 20227 min read
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On Jordan's Bank
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to talk with a Mandaean. These people are also called "John the Baptist Christians" and are a...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Dec 4, 20222 min read
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So Much for That Nap
So today it is either the First, or Third, or even Fourth Sunday of Advent depending on what Rite one is following .(If that confused...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 27, 20222 min read
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On the Crucified King
[Sermon delivered at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona on the Feast of Christ the King, the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 20, 20226 min read
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Endurance
I read an article a few weeks ago (something posted on LinkedIn, I think) which claimed that Westerners in general have been for some...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 13, 20222 min read
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When Does Advent Really Start?
When I started going to the parish I now call home, I was surprised that unlike other Western churches this parish, at odds with other...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Nov 6, 20222 min read
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A Giant of the Faith
"Now concerning those bishops which have been ordained in our lifetime, we let you know that they are these: … Of Caesarea of Palestine,...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Oct 30, 20222 min read
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It's Whom You Least Suspect
Sometimes I get the feeling that Our Lord had a soft spot in His heart for tax collectors. God knows, no one else did...or does...or ever...

Br. Lee Hughes, OP (Anglican)
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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