Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the 6th Sunday of Eastertide
Today’s 2nd reading, Alleluia and Gospel use the word “love” 20 times. That says something, and it raises the question, what love? Is it common or garden love or something […]
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Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter
Brothers and Sisters, today is the 3rd Sunday of Easter. It’s very encouraging that the Church doesn’t call these Sundays “Sundays after Easter” but “Sundays of Easter”. In the Church’s […]
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter
Today is the 2nd Sunday of Easter, also called Sunday in the Octave of Easter. This is the 8th day since Easter Sunday. And in liturgical thinking, the 8th day […]
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Mini-Sermon for Easter Thursday
A mini-sermon delivered by Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB at Mass in St Joseph’s Church, Aberdeen.
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Homily for Easter Day
“This day was made by the Lord; we rejoice and are glad.” That’s from Ps 117 (118), and repeated over and over again in the Easter Octave and the Easter […]
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Homily for the Easter Vigil
Last year we had no Easter in the flesh – just an online version. This year we have a half and half Easter. Next year, the 3rd year of this […]
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Homily for Good Friday
“We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you / because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.” We have just heard the Passion of our Lord according […]
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Homily for Palm Sunday
We have just heard the Passion according to Mark. It is the bleakest of the four accounts. Jesus dies surrounded by jeering, he dies in the dark, he dies with […]
