Sermon preached on Sunday, October 2, 2022 by Fr. Antony Hughes The Golden Rule is, I think, part of what Aldous Huxley called “The Perennial Philosophy.” By that he meant the common threads that exist in every religion. “Do unto others as you would have them do to you” appears in one form or another in many, if not all religions. That is a wonderful testimony to the all-encompassing love of God. He has enfused all of creation
Sermon preached on Sunday, July 24, 2022 by Fr. Antony Hughes Light is a major theme in the Gospels as we know. Another theme connected to it is the ability or inability to see the light. It is true that not everyone can see it. In Mt. 6 Jesus develops this theme for us. “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light.
Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, February 6, 2022 No one is “outside” of God, nor can be. Olivier Clement writes that “not one blade of grass grows outside the Church.” The Syro-Phoenician Woman was outside the Jewish fold, yes, but that did not mean she was disconnected from God. Jesus calls her a woman of great faith. Therefore, she must have been very connected with God indeed for all good things, like
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ! CHRIST IS RISEN! Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, May 24, 2020 All of us carry things that weigh us down: including beliefs and opinions, little “t” traditions that are unnecessary and burdensome, desires, sins, fears. I could name many others. We saw it in the Gospel of the Samaritan Woman last week. She held tightly to her Samaritan traditions as the Jews did to theirs. Worship here not there, there
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ! CHRIST IS RISEN! Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on May 29, 2022 Confronted by the inconvenient healing of the Blind Man the Pharisees employed a classic defense. Deflection. Notice how hard they tried to deflect attention from the healing. Look over here! Nothing to see over there! They attempted to undermine the veracity of the healing by trying to get the man to say he had not been born blind. Failing at
Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, May 17, 2020 One of my teachers in seminary once told us that all preaching should be about the kingdom of God. I suppose it was because that was what Jesus talked about most during his three-year public ministry. In Matthew’s Gospel the Lord mentions “the kingdom of heaven” 32 times. In Luke and Mark, the phrase kingdom of God is preferred. The Gospel of the Samaritan
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ! CHRIST IS RISEN! Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, May 14, 2023 When we are troubled, God draws nearer to us (if one can say God is ever not “near”) it can certainly seem that way. Actually, as Rebbe Barukh taught, “Faith and the abyss are next to one another.” Carl Jung added his two cents writing that mystics swim in the same water in which psychotics drown. Before the dialogue
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ! CHRIST IS RISEN! ~Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, April 26, 2020 …. Christ enters the Upper Room even though the doors were shut. He does not break down the door or the walls. He goes in as if there weren’t any. To God, of course, there aren’t. Our problem is that we don’t see as God sees. His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. While
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ! CHRIST IS RISEN! ~Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, May 16, 2021 Today we revisit the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of our Lord. Many of the familiar characters reappear. Pilate, Joseph of Arimathea, Mary Magdalene, the mother of Joses, Mary the mother of James and Salome. Except for Pilate of course, the faithful and courageous followers of Jesus. Courage does not mean the absence of fear. Fear is very often the
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ! CHRIST IS RISEN! Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, April 30, 2023 The women who went to the Lord ‘s Tomb on Sunday morning “while it was still dark” Were frightened and, sad, and very likely angry at what had happened to the Lord in Jerusalem on the one hand. On the other hand, they were driven by love for Jesus and responsibility to fulfill the proper Jewish burial rites for
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