Author: Bp Hugh Gilbert OSB

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Homily for Palm Sunday

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

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

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