Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for Palm Sunday
Today we have been led very far, very quickly. The Gospel we heard outside began with “Jesus going on ahead up to Jerusalem” and the Gospel we have just heard […]
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Homily for Station Mass at St Vincent’s, Tain
These last weeks of Lent have their own content and feel. Something shifts with the 4th Sunday of Lent, still more with the 5th and then definitively with the Sunday […]
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Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent
“See, I am doing a new deed.” So says the Lord through the prophet Isaiah in today’s 1st reading. In its original setting, this verse relates to Israel’s return from […]
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Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent
Reconciliation is a word that stands out in today’s Mass. The Collect begins, “O God who, through your Word, reconcile the human race to yourself in a wonderful way…” In […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of St Joseph
Today, 19th March, is the feast of St Joseph. Next Friday, 25th March, is that of the Annunciation. The two go together. In the middle of Lent, they take us […]
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Homily for the Station Mass
“You shall not kill”. We hear this very commandment as it is being broken in Ukraine. We hear it as a new war is writing itself into history and into […]
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent
God often seems hidden, hard to find. Where is he in our lives? Perhaps in today’s readings, there are two clues. “I am the Lord”, God says to Abram (later […]
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Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent
Perhaps thirty years ago, not long after the Iron Curtain had been pulled back, a young Ukrainian woman visited the monastery of Pluscarden. She was a wee slip of a […]
