6 July 2019

The Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden 2019, with homily

6 July 2019

According to annual custom, Bishop Hugh led a Pilgrimage of the Aberdeen Diocese to Pluscarden on Sunday 30 July. This year in Scotland that day was kept as the transferred Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul. As last year, our Pilgrimage congregation was much enlivened by the…

Pluscarden Abbey

1 July 2019

Homilies

Homily for SS. Peter and Paul, 30 June 2019

Pluscarden Abbey

1 July 2019

Homilies

Exeter Cathedral School was founded some time in the 12th century, and boasts an almost unbroken existence from that day to this. I went there as a boarder in 1966, aged 7, with a scholarship linked to my place in the Choir. We sang…

Pluscarden Abbey

1 July 2017

Homilies

Homily for the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul, 29 June 2017

Pluscarden Abbey

1 July 2017

Homilies

The Catholic Church celebrates each of the twelve Apostles with an annual liturgical Feast. Some of the Apostles indeed have to double up. Saints Simon and Jude go together in October, and Saints Phillip and James in...

Pluscarden Abbey

30 June 2016

Homilies

Homily for the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul, 29 June 2016

Pluscarden Abbey

30 June 2016

Homilies

A great question is put before us today. Who do you say I am? Who is Jesus Christ? What is he to me? What difference does he make? And the Church gives us the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul, so that we may boldly celebrate and...

Pluscarden Abbey

29 June 2016

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 12C 19.06.2016 - Luke 9: 18-24

Pluscarden Abbey

29 June 2016

Homilies

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...