• Bishop Hugh: Train Accident at Stonehaven

    My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the terrible train incident that took place outside Stonehaven yesterday. In times such as these, our hearts go out to […]

  • Homily for the 19th Sunday of the Year

    Today we meet three people, each of them deeply troubled. In the 1st reading, the prophet Elijah, in the 2nd reading St Paul, in the Gospel Peter. It’s to their […]

  • Available Now: Light of the North Summer 2020

    The summer issue of the Light of the North is now available online. There is lots for everyone in this issue, not least  Bishop Hugh Gilbert’s letter in which Bishop […]

  • Homily for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

    God is real: “I am”, he says. God is involved. God is on our side. These are the basic propositions of our faith. Sunday after Sunday they’re brought before us. […]

  • Homily for the Diaconal Ordination of Malachy Eze and Christopher Doig

    Today’s homily is supposed to be “brief and to the point”. So, who are these like stars appearing? “Chosen men”, the Litany of the Saints will call them. Here, briefly, […]

  • BCOS – Guidelines for the Resumption of Mass

    The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland Pastoral Ministry Working Group has published this Infographic summary of guidance for parishioners as they return to church for the public celebration of Mass. 

  • Diaconate Ordination of Malachy Eze & Christopher Doig

    The diaconate Ordination of Malachy Eze & Christopher Doig will be celebrated by Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB in St Mary’s Cathedral on Thursday 16th July at 11:00, following the coronavirus […]

  • Homily for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

    Today’s readings are full of the “earth”. So Isaiah: “As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it […]

     

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