Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 02/03/2020

  Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent

  How good to begin this Sunday with the Litany of the Saints! Immediately we feel helped. Whenever the Litany of the Saints is sung, it’s because something big is going […]

• 27/02/2020

  Homily for Ash Wednesday

  Those of us familiar with the Lord of the Rings will remember a scene near the beginning. Frodo is in his hobbit hole in the Shire, that good, green, wholesome, […]

• 25/01/2020

  Homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

  Brothers and Sisters, as your bishop, my great longing is that Christ be real to us. Ever more real. Real, though physically unseen. Real to the eyes of faith. Real […]

• 12/01/2020

  Homily for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

  Today, as it were, we fast forward. The child in the manger is suddenly an adult by the river. Instead of the arms of his mother, there’s the voice of […]

• 28/12/2019

  New Year Message

  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In the wake of Christmas I want to wish you all a good New Year. At the next Easter Vigil, the number 2020 will […]

• 27/12/2019

  Homily for Christmas Day Mass

  Brothers and Sisters, why has he done this? Why has God become a human being? Why has the Word become flesh and lived among us? Why has the radiant light […]

• 26/12/2019

  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 […]

• 23/12/2019

  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 […]