Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 23/03/2020

  Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent

  Brothers and Sisters, our Lenten caravan is lumbering on. We are like the “mixed multitude” (Ex 12:38) that left Egypt with the Chosen People. We are on our way to […]

• 23/03/2020

  Homily for the Solemnity of St Joseph

  “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife.” Isn’t it good, isn’t it poignant, that our last public Mass for whatever length of […]

• 22/03/2020

  Sermon for 4th Sunday of Lent

  Bishop Hugh Gilbert at St Joseph’s Church, Aberdeen   “If I should walk in the valley of darkness, no evil would I fear. You are there.” Familiar, famous words. “The […]

• 13/03/2020

  Prayer to the God of Life in a Time of Illness

  Almighty Father, Look upon us and all of humanity, in this time of illness, as we are affected by this new epidemic of the coronavirus. We confide to you all […]

• 08/03/2020

  Homily for 2nd Sunday of Lent

  “There in their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as light.” Why do we have this Gospel this Sunday? We […]

• 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 […]