Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Brothers and Sisters, we are in this Jubilee Year, with its motto, Pilgrims of Hope. Let’s keep in our prayers two groups of young people from our diocese: one in […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Birth of St John the Baptist
The angel told Zechariah that his son would be “great” and the Lord himself called him the “greatest born of woman”. The Liturgy takes the same view. In our Roman […]
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Homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time
It’s striking how today’s readings focus on what we call the Prayer of Petition, the prayer of asking. The prayer the Lord teaches us is all asking: 7 petitions in […]
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Homily for 16th Sunday of the Year
Brothers and Sisters, isn’t it striking that we should be hearing readings about hospitality this very weekend? I’m thinking of the Tall Ships. Aberdeen is being Abraham to so many […]
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Homily for the 14th Sunday of the Year
Dear Brothers and Sisters, it’s some four months since we had an ordinary “Green” Sunday. That was early in March. Since then, a Pope has died and another has succeeded. […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
Brothers and Sisters, today – the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi – we will be processing with the Blessed Sacrament from our Cathedral to St […]
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Message from the Bishop on the Election of Pope Leo XIV
With great joy, we welcome the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. He is the first pope to hail from North America, born on 14 September […]
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Fr. Peter Kelly Obituary
25-11-1952 – 10-04-2025. He was born on the 25 November 1952, in Greenside, outside Newcastle, in what was then County Durham. He was the second of four children born to […]
