Author: Bp Hugh Gilbert OSB

  • Homily for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart

    ‘They will look on the one whom they have pierced.’ This feast comes in this month when summer finally gets under way; it comes in a time of light and […]

  • The Parable of the Vine

    Faith Formation Seminar, Bishop’s House, Aberdeen, 9 May 2015 [The passage is read: John 15:1-17]. This concludes our series on the Parables of Jesus. Is it, though, a parable? Yes, […]

  • Homily for Trinity Sunday

    ‘Know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.’ These are the last words of Jesus in the Gospel according to Matthew. They’re the words left […]

  • Homily for Pentecost Sunday

    I’d like to touch on three things Scripture shows the Holy Spirit doing. The first is from the Gospel we’ve just heard: Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, ‘Receive […]

  • Homily for the 7th Sunday of Easter

    Sometimes, to understand the readings, it helps to think of them in their chronological order. If we do that today, the Gospel would come first. Let’s begin there, then. Where […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of the Ascension

      ‘Lift up your hearts.’ We hear those words at every Mass. And we reply, ‘We lift them up to the Lord.’ It is thanks to the mystery we celebrate […]

  • Homily for 6th Sunday of Easter & Celebration of Sacrament of Confirmation

    ‘While Peter was still speaking the Holy Spirit came down on all the listeners’ (1st Reading). That’s from the Acts of the Apostles. That book tells the story of the […]

  • Homily for Easter Day

    ‘This day was made by the Lord: we rejoice and are glad’ (Ps 117). Today must be a good day to be Pope. He goes out on to the balcony […]

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