Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent
Perhaps thirty years ago, not long after the Iron Curtain had been pulled back, a young Ukrainian woman visited the monastery of Pluscarden. She was a wee slip of a […]
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Homily for the 5th Sunday of the Year
This year, most Sundays, we will hear St Luke – the great storyteller. We have today. And I think that, for St Luke, there’s something really key about the Gospel […]
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Homily for the Institution of a Lector (4th Sunday of Ordinary Time)
“Jesus began to speak in the synagogue: ‘This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.’” Today’s Gospel follows on directly from last week’s. Jesus is at the beginning […]
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Pastoral Letter for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I hope you have been refreshed by the celebrations of Christmas and New Year. As you know, Pope Francis has invited the whole Church […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Lord’s Epiphany
Today being the Epiphany, we remember especially the magi and how they came from the east to worship the new-born King of the Jews. If Christ’s birth had been set […]
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Homily for the Feast of the Lord’s Baptism
Today, what happens? What’s happeneing by the Jordan? There are many engaging answers to be had. I just want to focus on one. By being baptised in the Jordan, the […]
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Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family
One of the great privileges of being a priest is friendship with families. It’s a gift, to be allowed in, as it were, to see something of the daily life […]
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Homily for Christmas Day
In a recent email to friends, a monk – one of my brethren – wrote, “What happens every Christmas has happened again.”
