Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 15/12/2013

  Homily for 3rd Sunday of Advent

  An old monk once told me this story. He was visiting a Catholic couple in Germany in the 1930s. They asked him if he would speak with their son. The […]

• 04/12/2013

  Reflections on the 1st Sunday of Advent

  Extracts from Homilies and Catechesis Isaiah 2:1-5 – Ps 121 – Romans 13:11-14 – Matthew 24:37-44 Beginning Advent Today we’re beginning Advent. It comes gently enough, but it’s not a […]

• 29/11/2013

  Dedication of the church

  Homily for the Dedication of the church of St Joseph, Invergordon 29 November 2013 What are we doing this evening? First of all, we’re crowning almost a century of Catholic […]

• 17/11/2013

  Homily for 33rd Sunday of the Year

  In these last weeks of the Church’s year and again, when that year begins afresh in Advent, the liturgy and the readings take us on eagle’s wings, as it were. […]

• 10/11/2013

  Homily for 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

  Today is Remembrance Sunday, first of all. We remember the dead of the two World and other wars.  We remember especially the dead of our own country. But not only […]

• 25/08/2013

  Homily for Welcome of Dominican Sisters

  What is happening today? I’m old enough to remember Westerns. And here we are, wagons drawn close, feeling our last days have come and our scalps about to be removed, […]

• 17/08/2013

  Pastoral Letter for 18 August 2013

  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, ‘Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy […]

• 15/08/2013

  The Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady

  ‘The Almighty has done great things for me’ (Lk 1:49).  It’s good to have this feast. It’s good that it comes as summer comes to its climax and the harvest […]