Bp Hugh Gilbert

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    Homily for the Easter Vigil

    Last year we had no Easter in the flesh – just an online version. This year we have a half and half Easter. Next year, the 3rd year of this […]

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    Homily for Good Friday

    “We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you / because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.” We have just heard the Passion of our Lord according […]

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    Homily for Palm Sunday

    We have just heard the Passion according to Mark. It is the bleakest of the four accounts. Jesus dies surrounded by jeering, he dies in the dark, he dies with […]

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    Bishop Hugh’s Easter Message

    Easter this year coincides with the reopening of our churches and a growing, if cautious, hope for life beyond the pandemic. This is a happy convergence.

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    Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent

    Today we keep the 5th Sunday of Lent, only two weeks from Easter. Today’s Gospel from John ch. 12 is set in Jerusalem in the last week of Jesus’ life. […]

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    Homily for the Solemnity of St Joseph

    Bishop Hugh Gilbert’s homily delivered at online Station Mass celebrated at St Joseph’s Church, Woodside, Aberdeen.

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    No 5: Part of a People

    Homilies on the Kerygma, St Mary’s Cathedral, 4th Sunday of Lent, 14 March 2021. “God being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even […]

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    Homily for the feast of St John Ogilvie

    “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” St John […]

     

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