• Letter on Jubilee Year Indulgence

    Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Praised be Jesus Christ, our merciful Saviour, the face of the Father’s mercy! One of the features of a Jubilee Year is the possibility […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

    St Augustine has some interesting things to say about the Latin word for mercy, misericordia. It is made of two words: cor and miseria. Cor means ‘heart’, miseria ‘misery’, or […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of St Andrew

    If there were a litany of St Andrew perhaps it would go like this: fisherman in Galilee, son of John, brother of Simon Peter, disciple of John the Baptist, called […]

  • Pastoral Letter for the 1st Sunday of Advent

    Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Advent is here. It turns us to the coming of Christ, his three-fold coming:  as the child of Mary born in Bethlehem; as the […]

  • Homily for the Reception of the Daughters of Divine Love

    ‘The Lord is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds’ (Ps 145:13). And sometimes this comes home to us with force. What a good providence it […]

  • Homily for Solemnity of Christ the Universal King

    This is a feast with a lot to give us. It’s like the DVD of that line in the Apostles’ Creed: he ‘is seated at the right hand of God […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

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