Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 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. […]

• 21/07/2020

  Homily for the Diaconal Ordination of Malachy Eze and Christopher Doig

  Today’s homily is supposed to be “brief and to the point”. So, who are these like stars appearing? “Chosen men”, the Litany of the Saints will call them. Here, briefly, […]

• 12/07/2020

  Homily for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

  Today’s readings are full of the “earth”. So Isaiah: “As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it […]

• 06/07/2020

  Homily for the Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul

  I once actually saw a fisherman by the lake of Galilee casting a net into the sea. A biblical moment. In due time, he would have drawn that net back […]