Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today, brothers and sisters, is the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Green Time), and finally SS Jesus / SS Messiah leaves the quiet harbour of Nazareth and sets sail on […]
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today has been called Hangover Sunday – a spiritual hangover from Christmas and Epiphany! It’s the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, but it’s actually a second version – especially in […]
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Homily for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form or void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany
A beautiful feast today! It opens Christmas out. It invites us all in. “Let them come in, let them come in – all the Gentiles (that is, non-Jews),”, said Pope […]
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Homily for Christmas Mass during the Day
Friends, this is the last and greatest Mass of Christmas Day, the Day Mass we call it. Last evening, there were Vigil Masses, then Night Masses (the Midnight Mass), then […]
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Homily for the Dawn Mass of Christmas
This Mass, because of its Gospel, is sometimes called “the Shepherd’s Mass”. It has a quietness and intimacy to it. “Let us go over to Bethlehem”, the shepherds say to […]
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Homily for the Midnight Mass
Brothers and Sisters, we’re here. We’ve made it. We’re in the cave of the nativity. With the eyes of faith, we can see Mary and Joseph. It is wintry tonight […]
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Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family
Today’s feast reinforces something we know already: that when God became one of us, human, “man”, he did it properly. It wasn’t in a greenhouse, or in a bubble or […]
