Month: December 2019

• 28/12/2019

  New Year Message

  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In the wake of Christmas I want to wish you all a good New Year. At the next Easter Vigil, the number 2020 will […]

• 27/12/2019

  Homily for Christmas Day Mass

  Brothers and Sisters, why has he done this? Why has God become a human being? Why has the Word become flesh and lived among us? Why has the radiant light […]

• 26/12/2019

  Homily for Christmas Night Mass

  Brothers and sisters, here we are. Here we are at Christmas, the real Christmas. Here we are, not just in Aberdeen, but somehow in Bethlehem. Here we are in the […]

• 23/12/2019

  Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent

  Today the 4th Advent candle has been lit. The Lord is close. There’s a sense of heaven and earth, the divine and the human, coming together. Dew and rain falling […]

• 19/12/2019

  Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent

  The grace of Advent is hope. Advent can revive hope when it has been lost, refocus it when it has been misplaced. It puts our hopes in order, raising them […]

• 08/12/2019

  Homily for 2nd Sunday of Advent

  In the 2nd reading, St Paul says that what was written in the past in Scripture (our Old Testament) was written “that we might have hope”. The stories and the […]