Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the 5th Sunday of the Year
This year, most Sundays, we will hear St Luke – the great storyteller. We have today. And I think that, for St Luke, there’s something really key about the Gospel […]
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Homily for the Institution of a Lector (4th Sunday of Ordinary Time)
“Jesus began to speak in the synagogue: ‘This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.’” Today’s Gospel follows on directly from last week’s. Jesus is at the beginning […]
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Pastoral Letter for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I hope you have been refreshed by the celebrations of Christmas and New Year. As you know, Pope Francis has invited the whole Church […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Lord’s Epiphany
Today being the Epiphany, we remember especially the magi and how they came from the east to worship the new-born King of the Jews. If Christ’s birth had been set […]
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Homily for the Feast of the Lord’s Baptism
Today, what happens? What’s happeneing by the Jordan? There are many engaging answers to be had. I just want to focus on one. By being baptised in the Jordan, the […]
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Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family
One of the great privileges of being a priest is friendship with families. It’s a gift, to be allowed in, as it were, to see something of the daily life […]
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Homily for Christmas Day
In a recent email to friends, a monk – one of my brethren – wrote, “What happens every Christmas has happened again.”
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Homily for the Mass of Christmas Night
He’s arrived. It’s happened. He’s here. Sent from God the Father, Inscribed in creation from the beginning, Prophesied in Israel, Conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary, […]
