Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 18/04/2017

  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 […]

• 18/04/2017

  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. […]

• 18/04/2017

  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 […]

• 18/04/2017

  Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent

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

• 17/04/2017

  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, […]

• 27/02/2017

  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 […]

• 13/01/2017

  Homily for the Requiem of Br Meinrad Gibson OSB (1934 – 2017)

  ‘It will be said on that day, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for […]

• 11/01/2017

  Homily for the Epiphany

  There’s a piece of old-fashioned, common-sense human wisdom, which says that each of us has a ‘ruling passion’. Not a passion for steam-engines or jewellery or boiled lobsters, but something […]