Bp Hugh Gilbert

  • Homily for Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden Abbey

    How can Mary help us? How can she help us in our journey through life, in our Christian life? How does she help our lives towards fulfilment, happiness, heaven? Because […]

  • Homily for Mass of Easter Sunday

    The Bible is full of grief. There is even a book of the Old Testament, often read in Holy Week, called Lamentations. The world is full of tear-stained faces and […]

  • Homily for the Easter Vigil

    Tonight’s the night. It is in a special way the night for Lauren Robertson who is to be baptised. It’s the night for Chisomje and Lyndsey being received into the […]

  • Homily for Good Friday

    Three times in the Gospel of John, Jesus speaks of being ‘lifted up’. And today this happens. Today he’s lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert. […]

  • Homily for Maundy Thursday

    Tonight we climb the stairs to a furnished Upper Room in Jerusalem. Night is falling, but there’s a full moon in the sky, perhaps the colour of blood orange. And […]

  • Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent

    Jesus ‘cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, here! Come out.”’

  • Homily for Palm Sunday

    ‘We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.’ Today, 72 years ago, 9 April 1945, a German Lutheran Pastor, […]

  • Homily for 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time

    Lent is drawing near and today our catechumens and candidates, Colin and Lauren, Lynsey and Chisomje, have taken a decisive step towards Easter. Today, the Lord tells us in the […]

     

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