Bp Hugh Gilbert

  • Homily for Mass of Election

    St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, Friday after Ash Wednesday 12 February 2016 When someone becomes a monk (a novice), he kneels before the Abbot and community and is asked: ‘What do […]

  • Preparation for the First Sunday of Lent 2016

    “By clinging to Christ the Victor, the One who overcomes all that threatens and oppresses us we share his victory at Easter” Watch the preparation for the First Sunday of […]

  • Reflection at St Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral, Aberdeen – Candlemas 2016

    “Light from light”. Fr Isaac, a good friend and the Provost of this Cathedral, has asked me to reflect on these words. I am grateful for this and honoured to […]

  • Homily for the End of the Year of Consecrated Life

    United with those in Rome, in Glasgow and throughout the world, here we are closing the Year of Consecrated Life. It has perhaps been overshadowed by the Synod on Marriage […]

  • Message for Ash Wednesday

    Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB message for Ash Wednesday 2016

  • Homily for 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time

    Today’s readings tell of extraordinary things. They tell of unexpected lightning, the lightning that struck Isaiah (1st reading), struck Peter, James and John (the Gospel) and, after the Resurrection, struck […]

  • Homily for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time

    I’d like to approach today’s readings in a roundabout way. A family was hosting some friends to a meal. The mother asked her teenage son to go to the kitchen […]

  • Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

    ‘There was a wedding in Cana in Galilee.’ And Jesus was there. This is the Gospel of John, the Gospel with depth upon depth. ‘There was a wedding…’ And Jesus […]

     

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