Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent and the 1st Scrutiny
Today our “elect”, those preparing for baptism at Easter, are “given” the Creed. We will all recite it for them to hear. We are playing the part of Mother Church. […]
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What is Benedictine Spirituality and can it help Laypeople?
Notes of a Talk at the Chaplaincy of the University of Aberdeen, 2 March 2026. Throughout history, the Lord raises up figures who become luminaries for others, guides to the […]
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Station Mass for Friday after Ash Wednesday – Enrolment of the Elect
Today’s Collect is a good one, and it began like this: “O God who, though you are ever the cause of the salvation of the human race now gladden your […]
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Homily for the Diaconal Ordination of René Ko Delos Reyes
Dear René, how amazing God’s providence, how wonderful his ways. How extraordinary you should be here, close to St Thomas More’s mulberry tree, in a seminary christened by the blood […]
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Homily for Ash Wednesday
Can I begin with a scene from Scripture? Adam and Eve have just sinned, and they hear “the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool […]
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Homily for the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
“Longing for light, we wait in darkness” goes the hymn. Well, we do. The light is coming, we know, the mornings a little earlier and the dark a little later, […]
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Homily for 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
We’ve just heard the Beatitudes. It’s a big moment. “Jesus went up on the mountain.” If any of you have been to Galilee, you’ll know that what’s identified the Mount […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God
Today, we have a chance to go to Bethlehem again, following the shepherds, to keep a second, 8th day Christmas. Today, eight days after birth, our Lord is circumcised, enlisted […]
