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The Life of Beauty in an Ugly World

~By Father Stephen Freeman, September 26, 2018 In my last article, I described our personal existence as something that is not self-contained but found only in relation. Who-I-am is seen in the face of the one beholding me. There is an element of this in the perception of beauty that is worth noting. Some years ago, my wife and I visited the Grand Canyon. Its beauty is impossible to describe. I consistently felt frustrated with

To See or Not to See

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.

A Place Both Strange and Wonderful

Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, November 26, 2017 The lawyer had eyes and he could not see. He stood before God incarnate and did not know him. “Those who have ears to hear, let them hear,” Jesus often says. The same is true, of course, of eyes. The lawyer had healthy eyes and could not see and healthy ears and could not hear. He did hear something with his ears and saw