Author: Bp Hugh Gilbert OSB

  • Homily for Midnight Mass

    ‘O Cave, prepare yourself to receive the Mother who carries Christ in her womb. O Manger, receive the Word who destroyed the sins of all. O shepherds, keep watch and […]

  • Penitential Service

    When I was a boy, my parents gave me a clock. It was a fine clock; it was blue, I remember; it had luminous hands. I put it by my […]

  • Homily for Opening of the Door of Mercy

    Today, the Holy Door has been opened. The Year of Mercy has arrived. The prophet Balaam is called a “man with far-seeing eyes”. There is something of that to Pope […]

  • University of Aberdeen Carol Service – Meditation

    An American acquaintance christened his house ‘Love-in-the-ruins’. He has never vouchsafed precisely why. Apparently, the phrase – in the form ‘love among the ruins’ – goes back to an 1855 […]

  • Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent

    Let’s look at today’s gospel. It describes John the Baptist entering on the scene of history. It’s a God-moment, an Advent moment. One beginning of the Gospel story is the […]

  • Letter on Jubilee Year Indulgence

    Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Praised be Jesus Christ, our merciful Saviour, the face of the Father’s mercy! One of the features of a Jubilee Year is the possibility […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

    St Augustine has some interesting things to say about the Latin word for mercy, misericordia. It is made of two words: cor and miseria. Cor means ‘heart’, miseria ‘misery’, or […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of St Andrew

    If there were a litany of St Andrew perhaps it would go like this: fisherman in Galilee, son of John, brother of Simon Peter, disciple of John the Baptist, called […]

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