Author: Bp Hugh Gilbert OSB

• 01/04/2018

  Homily for Easter Sunday

  Today – Easter day – there is only one thing to say: Christ is risen! He is truly risen! I hope each and all of us can say it. Let’s […]

• 01/04/2018

  Homily for the Easter Vigil

  “Why is this night different from all other nights?” That’s the famous question that the youngest member of a Jewish family asks at the Passover meal. Four times. And the […]

• 01/04/2018

  Homily for Good Friday

  Three times in the Gospel of John, Jesus said he would be lifted up (Jn 3:14; 8:28; 12:32). He was talking of his death. And that Friday in Jerusalem 2000 […]

• 30/03/2018

  Homily for Maundy Thursday

  ‘This is my Body which will be given up for you.’ ‘This is the chalice of my blood, poured out for you’ Are there any words quite like these? ‘Hoc […]

• 26/03/2018

  Homily for Palm Sunday

  Today we enter on Holy Week and Christ enters Jerusalem and enters into his Passion. What is it all about?

• 24/03/2018

  Homily for the Chrism Mass

  Oil overflows, spills, runs… This is a very sacramental time of year. Today’s liturgy is a case in point. We recall the sacrament of Orders, bless the oils of Catechumens […]

• 25/02/2018

  Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent

  Recently, I was in Washington and visited the Museum of the Bible. Its focus is the history, formation, copying, translating, printing, impact, influence of the Bible. It is new, close […]

• 19/02/2018

  Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent

  Today Jesus is driven by the Holy Spirit into the desert, and there he is for forty days, tempted by Satan. It’s a mysterious episode: on the edge of human […]