The Pluscarden Community was delighted to have a visit at the end of October this year by the eminent and distinguished Abbot Gregory Polan of our Order.
Report on the Pluscarden Bees: October 2025
Report on the Pluscarden Garden: October 2025
By Br. Thomas Cole OSB, chief gardener
Farewell to a glorious and incredibly warm summer, and welcome to the bounteous and beneficial harvest of autumn! The waning of the daylight and the contraction of plant life in the polytunnels can give a slightly mournful air to this season, yet one cannot but praise God for the glorious bounty of the garden this past year. Also, of course, for the consoling colour of the fruits and leaves all about us.
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 5 October 2025, Sunday 27 C: Luke17:5-10
If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea”, and it would obey you.
We have this saying of Our Lord in slightly different forms twice in the Gospel of St. Matthew, and also once in the Gospel of St. Mark. According to Matthew, our Lord twice says that faith will be able to move a mountain. We can tell a mountain to move from here to there, and it will move
Homily for Sunday 26C, 28 September 2025
Daniel 3:29-31; Amos 6:1-7; Luke 16:19-31
Omnia quae fecisti nobis Domine, in vero iudicio fecisti – All that you have done to us, O Lord, you have done with righteous judgement…
As usual we entered Mass today with words from the Old Testament. The text for this week’s Introit Chant is taken from the Prophet Daniel, according to its Greek version, somewhat freely adapted.