Anyone who does not carry his Cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
In today’s Gospel Jesus seems to do all he can to put people off from following him. No sane, reasonable person, he seems to say, would...
Homily for Sunday 21C 2016
Homily for 14 August 2016, Sunday 20C, on Luke 12:49-53
Homily for Sunday 17C, 2016
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 15C, 10 July 2016, on Lk 10:25-37
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...