In this Year of Mercy it’s impossible not to comment on the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The point of this parable is not in the first place the mercy we receive from God, but the mercy we...
Pastoral Letter by Dom Hugh Gilbert OSB, Bishop of Aberdeen, for 14th Sunday of the Year
Homily for the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul, 29 June 2016
Homily for Sunday 12C 19.06.2016 - Luke 9: 18-24
Today’s Gospel passage describes an important turning point in Luke’s Gospel. Today St Peter identifies Jesus as “the Christ of God”. As in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, it is when St Peter on behalf of the disciples declares Jesus to be the Christ of God, that Jesus first predicts his own passion and death. This is not what...