Bp Hugh Gilbert

• 17/06/2014

  Homily for the Three Cathedrals Service

  ‘Is Christ divided?’(1 Cor 1:13). This was the provocative question St Paul put to that Corinthian community he so loved and suffered for. It’s the question that the World Council […]

• 09/06/2014

  Homily for Pentecost Sunday

  Come, Holy Spirit! Today, Pentecost Day, Whit Sunday, we recall that coming at Pentecost in Jerusalem around 30 AD. We give thanks for it. We believe this coming can be […]

• 27/04/2014

  Homily for 2nd Sunday of Easter

  ‘This day was made by the Lord; we rejoice and are glad!’ (Ps 117:24). We heard this verse in the Responsorial Psalm. It is used every day of the Easter […]

• 20/04/2014

  Homily for Easter Sunday

  ‘And is it true?… That God was man in Palestine, And lives today in bread and wine?’ So Sir John Betjeman in his poem Christmas. And is it true that […]

• 20/04/2014

  Homily for the Easter Vigil

  How many journeys are reaching their destination tonight! The journey of the two Marys to Jesus’ tomb. The journeys of Elisabet, Balazs, Paul, Alan, Philemon and Philomena to faith and […]

• 18/04/2014

  Homily for Good Friday

  We have just heard the Passion according to John. And how many ‘Passions’ there are in the world, going on in the world, how much suffering! Think of the Passion […]

• 17/04/2014

  Homily for Maundy Thursday

  ‘The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it’ (Jn 1:5). Tonight we’re with the Jesus and the Twelve in ‘the large upper room, furnished and […]

• 12/04/2014

  Pastoral Letter for Palm Sunday 2014

  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, This is a short Pastoral Letter to mark the beginning of Holy Week. ‘Together in Christ’ is the motto of this diocese, and together […]