Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 07/11/2015

  Homily for the Re-dedication of Pluscarden Abbey Church

  We are a people who need comforting. So it is. I think if we just pause and feel ourselves, return to our hearts, we will sense this. There’s a great […]

• 03/11/2015

  Reflection for Scottish Parliament

  Presiding Officer, Ladies and Gentlemen, Before being bishop, I am a Benedictine monk.  It was thanks to an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1560 that the monastery I lived in […]

• 01/11/2015

  Homily for All Saints

  My mother died on this feast 9 years ago. I admire her for her timing! This is a great feast. It’s beautifully timed itself. It comes after the feasts of […]

• 25/10/2015

  Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

  This is a wonderful Gospel. And like every Gospel reading it goes beyond itself; it includes us. Jesus at this point in the Gospel according to Mark, for some three […]

• 22/08/2015

  Pastoral Letter for 23rd August 2015

  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Last Tuesday, Revd. Dr. Andrew McLellan published his Commission’s Report, a review of current Safeguarding policies, procedures and practice within the Catholic Church in […]

• 18/08/2015

  Statement by Bishop Hugh Gilbert

  Statement by the Bishop of Aberdeen, Rt Rev. Hugh Gilbert OSB, following the publication of the McLellan Report. As Bishop of Aberdeen Diocese I welcome the publication of the McLellan […]

• 15/08/2015

  Homily for the Assumption of Our Lady

  Today is a day of uplift. The Collect has the phrase ‘the things that are above.’ The baffling 1st reading talks of a child ‘taken straight up to God and […]

• 15/07/2015

  Homily for the Re-opening of St Gregory’s, Preshome

  ‘She named him Moses because, she said, “I drew him out of the water”.’ Today’s first reading summarises Moses’ early life, the early life of Israel’s great prophet, liberator and […]