Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 06/04/2019

  Pastoral Letter For the 5th Sunday of Lent

  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Easter is almost here. We might picture ‘Easter’ as a person, as someone coming to visit us. She comes with her cortege of feasts: […]

• 26/03/2019

  Homily for Funeral Mass of Mgr Robert MacDonald

  In his latter years, Mgr Robert produced – with Anne Oliver’s help – a pleasing booklet, Priests I have Known. Well, he is a priest all of us here have […]

• 26/03/2019

  Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent

  Today Jesus meets the Samaritan woman by Jacob’s well. St Augustine captures the energy of the story. “A woman came. She is a symbol of the Church not yet justified, […]

• 05/03/2019

  Bishop’s Hugh’s Message for Ash Wednesday

  Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB of the Diocese of Aberdeen invites us to consider using Psalms as a guide through the extraordinary time of Lent to reflect our relationship with God.

• 23/01/2019

  Homily for the Three Cathedrals Service

  “Jesus went on his way …journeying to Jerusalem.” Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem is the backbone, the spinal cord of the Gospel of Luke. He turns his face towards Jerusalem. He […]

• 07/01/2019

  Bishop Hugh on Recent Beatifications

  Bishop Hugh highlights the importance of reflection on the extraordinary people that have been beatified recently in Algeria. 

• 30/12/2018

  Feast of the Holy Family

  Today we keep the feast of the Holy Family. And today’s Gospel recounts a dramatic episode in that family’s life: the losing and finding of the 12 year old Jesus. […]

• 26/12/2018

  Christmas Day Mass

  Every Sunday Mass, every feast day, has its own set of prayers and readings. Christmas, being a great feast, the second after Easter, has four. It has a Vigil Mass, […]