Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 21/09/2020

  Homily for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time

  How good it is, Sunday after Sunday, to hear these Gospels from St Matthew! How good, amid the fears and obsessions wracking the kingdoms of the world, to hear Christ’s […]

• 21/09/2020

  Homily for the 24th Sunday of the Year

  Today, the Collect, the 1st reading, the Psalm and above all the Gospel bring “forgiveness” before us. St Matthew hands us the parable of the unforgiving servant and with it […]

• 06/09/2020

  Homily for the 23rd Sunday of the Year

  In St Matthew’s Gospel, our Lord both teaches and does. He is the Master of thought and life. The Gospel alternates from one to the other, in a structured way. […]

• 30/08/2020

  Homily for 22nd Sunday of the Year

  Today’s Gospel is a hard one. It must have been very hard for Peter to hear the words: “Get behind me, Satan.” It’s hard for us to hear the words […]

• 16/08/2020

  Homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary

  Aberdeen is a rather sombre place at present: still in lockdown, football-less, and most of all mourning the sad event on the train line north of Stonehaven, and the loss […]

• 13/08/2020

  Bishop Hugh: Train Accident at Stonehaven

  My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the terrible train incident that took place outside Stonehaven yesterday. In times such as these, our hearts go out to […]

• 10/08/2020

  Homily for the 19th Sunday of the Year

  Today we meet three people, each of them deeply troubled. In the 1st reading, the prophet Elijah, in the 2nd reading St Paul, in the Gospel Peter. It’s to their […]

• 08/08/2020

  Homily for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

  God is real: “I am”, he says. God is involved. God is on our side. These are the basic propositions of our faith. Sunday after Sunday they’re brought before us. […]