Author: Bp Hugh Gilbert OSB

• 17/02/2018

  Homily for Station Mass

  “[This] is the time in the vineyard of the Lord, when, at the planting of the new vines, the old vines are pruned, that they may bear more fruit” (from […]

• 14/02/2018

  Homily for Ash Wednesday 2018

  When I became bishop, I found in the house chapel a casket. Inside the casket were relics of several saints. Some of these were actually bones, one or two a […]

• 11/02/2018

  Homily for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)

  The power of God’s word is what the today’s readings deliver. The Lord says to Moses, ‘I will raise up a prophet like yourself for them…I will put my words […]

• 11/02/2018

  Memoria Dei

  Talk to the Religious of the Diocese. I’d like to talk about the memory of God. It is a great theme. God remembers and so do we. So, memory is […]

• 19/01/2018

  Homily for the Funeral of Canon William Anderson

  That Gospel has not been read by chance. It was chosen for this occasion by the much-loved man whose life we are here to be eucharistic about: Fr. Bill Anderson, […]

• 11/01/2018

  Homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany

  Epiphany means ‘manifestation.’ But that’s a heavy word. An ‘epiphany’ is an outburst, an explosion, of light and of a light falling on us, lighting us. This is a beautiful […]

• 09/01/2018

  Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent

  Today is both the 4th Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve. This conflation brings certain people before us. They’re not Christ. They’re pointers to Christ. They sketch him. They draw […]

• 06/01/2018

  Epiphany Message 2018

  Message for the feast of Epiphany 2018 by Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB: