Author: Bp Hugh Gilbert OSB

  • Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family

    We’ve all heard of the Scottish Government’s Named Person Scheme. It has not yet passed into law, but is being piloted in various places, including here. It aims to provide […]

  • Homily for Midnight Mass

    Christmas works. Every year we have the same prayers, same readings, same rituals; we hear the same story; we see the same decorations. But it doesn’t pall. It’s always fresh. […]

  • Homily on Feast of St Stephen

    Today is the feast of St Stephen. He’s the protomartyr, the first of many to give their lives for Christ. He’s a protodeacon, one of the first seven appointed by […]

  • Homily for Christmas Day Mass

    ‘No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, who is nearest to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.’ There are so many Christmasses, aren’t there? […]

  • Homily for Penitential Service

    ‘Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali! Way of the sea on the far side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations! The people that lived in darkness has seen a great […]

  • Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent,

    ‘Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son was made known by the message of an […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    One of the great Catholic “basics” is the notion of the “state of grace”. The phrase comes from St Paul’s Letter to the Romans. For him it’s the positive relationship […]

  • Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent

    Four weeks of Advent (one gone already), four weeks of waiting. Mary had nine months of it. But she and we are in this together, however separated by the centuries. […]

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