Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden Abbey
How good it is to be together again – and to be together around this altar and in this place, Pluscarden Abbey, the spiritual heart of the diocese as bishops […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart
Tonight we keep the third of three great post-Pentecost feasts: the Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi and now the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We love hearing stories, telling stories, and a […]
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Homily for Pentecost Sunday
In the northern hemisphere, Christmas hallows winter, Easter hallows spring and Pentecost summer. In the beginning, the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life, hovered over the waters, and […]
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Homily for the Ordination of Graeme Morrison to the Permanent Diaconate
Here we are in Moray, Banffshire. And at this time of year, we may easily see a field of barley and a burn running beside it. But who first imagined […]
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Platinum Jubilee Message
Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB of the Diocese of Aberdeen congratulates Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on the joyful occasion of her
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Homily for the Ascension of the Lord
“As he blessed them, he withdrew from them…” (Lk 24:51). We can feel uncomfortable with the Lord’s Ascension: a body floating skyward, carried by clouds. But we needn’t.
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter
Today is … what Sunday? Yes, indeed, Divine Mercy Sunday, but much else too. First of all, it is the 2nd Sunday of Easter. We can call it a 2nd […]
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Homily for Easter Sunday
What do we say today, Easter Sunday? It’s something so simple, so great, so good. Firmly, joyfully, we say Christ is risen, Alleluia. And we can add the Eastern Christian […]
