• Homily for the Farwell Mass for the Religious of the Sacred Heart

    Forgive me mentioning a curious detail In 1895, it was a Bishop Hugh MacDonald – a religious – who welcomed the Religious of the Sacred Heart to Aberdeen, and now, […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul,

    Let’s begin from the beginning. God the Father has sent his Son into the world. And he sent him through Mary. ‘The Word (the Son) became flesh’ and received flesh, […]

  • Homily for Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden Abbey

    How can Mary help us? How can she help us in our journey through life, in our Christian life? How does she help our lives towards fulfilment, happiness, heaven? Because […]

  • Homily for Mass of Easter Sunday

    The Bible is full of grief. There is even a book of the Old Testament, often read in Holy Week, called Lamentations. The world is full of tear-stained faces and […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent

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

     

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