Bp Hugh Gilbert
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Homily for the 19th Sunday of the Year
Today we meet three people, each of them deeply troubled. In the 1st reading, the prophet Elijah, in the 2nd reading St Paul, in the Gospel Peter. It’s to their […]
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Homily for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
God is real: “I am”, he says. God is involved. God is on our side. These are the basic propositions of our faith. Sunday after Sunday they’re brought before us. […]
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Homily for the Diaconal Ordination of Malachy Eze and Christopher Doig
Today’s homily is supposed to be “brief and to the point”. So, who are these like stars appearing? “Chosen men”, the Litany of the Saints will call them. Here, briefly, […]
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Homily for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings are full of the “earth”. So Isaiah: “As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul
I once actually saw a fisherman by the lake of Galilee casting a net into the sea. A biblical moment. In due time, he would have drawn that net back […]
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Homily for 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time
One of the saints of this diocese is John Ogilvie, born in Keith in 1580 and martyred in Glasgow in 1615. He lived at a time of ferocious controversy between […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
“As I am who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me” (John 6:57). The trouble is […]
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