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Homily for 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time
The Gospel we’ve just heard is surely one of the most vivid and gripping of them all. It would make a great sequence in a film. It’s crammed with symbolism, […]
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Homily for the 900th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of St Magnus
‘I tell you most solemnly, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a rich […]
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BBC Scotland: ‘Biggest’ Gathering of Bishops to Honour Orkney’s Saint
Following last weekends event of our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Orkney, the BBC released the following report:
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Homily for the Ascension
‘I came forth from the Father and came into the world. Now, I am leaving the world and going to the Father’. So Jesus said at the Last Supper, summing […]
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Homily for the Farwell Mass for the Religious of the Sacred Heart
Forgive me mentioning a curious detail In 1895, it was a Bishop Hugh MacDonald – a religious – who welcomed the Religious of the Sacred Heart to Aberdeen, and now, […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul,
Let’s begin from the beginning. God the Father has sent his Son into the world. And he sent him through Mary. ‘The Word (the Son) became flesh’ and received flesh, […]
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Homily for Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden Abbey
How can Mary help us? How can she help us in our journey through life, in our Christian life? How does she help our lives towards fulfilment, happiness, heaven? Because […]
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Homily for Mass of Easter Sunday
The Bible is full of grief. There is even a book of the Old Testament, often read in Holy Week, called Lamentations. The world is full of tear-stained faces and […]
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