Author: Bp Hugh Gilbert OSB

  • Homily for Maundy Thursday

    Tonight we climb the stairs to a furnished Upper Room in Jerusalem. Night is falling, but there’s a full moon in the sky, perhaps the colour of blood orange. And […]

  • Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent

    Jesus ‘cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, here! Come out.”’

  • Homily for Palm Sunday

    ‘We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.’ Today, 72 years ago, 9 April 1945, a German Lutheran Pastor, […]

  • Homily for 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time

    Lent is drawing near and today our catechumens and candidates, Colin and Lauren, Lynsey and Chisomje, have taken a decisive step towards Easter. Today, the Lord tells us in the […]

  • Homily for the Requiem of Br Meinrad Gibson OSB (1934 – 2017)

    ‘It will be said on that day, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for […]

  • Homily for the Epiphany

    There’s a piece of old-fashioned, common-sense human wisdom, which says that each of us has a ‘ruling passion’. Not a passion for steam-engines or jewellery or boiled lobsters, but something […]

  • Homily for the Priestly Ordination of Andrzej Niski

    ‘“Ah, Lord; look, I do not know how to speak: I am a child!”’, says Jeremiah. ‘Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth and said to […]

  • Homily for Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

    ‘May the Lord uncover his face to you and bring you peace.’

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