Month: August 2020
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Homily for 22nd Sunday of the Year
Today’s Gospel is a hard one. It must have been very hard for Peter to hear the words: “Get behind me, Satan.” It’s hard for us to hear the words […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary
Aberdeen is a rather sombre place at present: still in lockdown, football-less, and most of all mourning the sad event on the train line north of Stonehaven, and the loss […]
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Bishop Hugh: Train Accident at Stonehaven
My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the terrible train incident that took place outside Stonehaven yesterday. In times such as these, our hearts go out to […]
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Homily for the 19th Sunday of the Year
Today we meet three people, each of them deeply troubled. In the 1st reading, the prophet Elijah, in the 2nd reading St Paul, in the Gospel Peter. It’s to their […]
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Available Now: Light of the North Summer 2020
The summer issue of the Light of the North is now available online. There is lots for everyone in this issue, not least Bishop Hugh Gilbert’s letter in which Bishop […]
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Homily for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
God is real: “I am”, he says. God is involved. God is on our side. These are the basic propositions of our faith. Sunday after Sunday they’re brought before us. […]
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