Bp Hugh Gilbert

  • Homily for Christmas Night Mass

    Brothers and sisters, here we are. Here we are at Christmas, the real Christmas. Here we are, not just in Aberdeen, but somehow in Bethlehem. Here we are in the […]

  • Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent

    Today the 4th Advent candle has been lit. The Lord is close. There’s a sense of heaven and earth, the divine and the human, coming together. Dew and rain falling […]

  • Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent

    The grace of Advent is hope. Advent can revive hope when it has been lost, refocus it when it has been misplaced. It puts our hopes in order, raising them […]

  • Homily for 2nd Sunday of Advent

    In the 2nd reading, St Paul says that what was written in the past in Scripture (our Old Testament) was written “that we might have hope”. The stories and the […]

  • Homily for St Andrew’s Day

    Today we’re celebrating an individual, a fisherman from Lake Galilee, a chosen disciple of Jesus, a 1st century Jew with a Greek name, Andrew (meaning “manly”). With time, he’s become […]

  • Homily for Solemnity of Christ the Universal King

    Today is the last great feast of the liturgical year. At the Annunciation, the angel tells Mary that her son will be given the throne of his father David. At […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of All Saints

    There’s so much “seeing” in today’s readings. First of all, in the Apocalypse, John sees – “I John saw”. He sees into heaven. He sees an angel stamping a seal […]

  • Homily for Mass in Commemoration of the Canonisation of St John Ogilvie

    On this day in 1976, in St Peter’s, Rome, John Ogilvie was canonized. There’s a full account in the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1978, pp. 432-437. Andrew Mann read the […]

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