The Pluscarden Poultry Enterprise has recently expanded, to include now 6 beautiful Emden geese: 5 female geese and 1 gander.
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 4 October 2026, Sunday 27A: Phil 4:6-9
Today’s second reading gives us just 4 verses from Philippians. The passage is very familiar: a wonderful one to take very slowly, reading it word by word as a prayerful lectio divina. Chewing over these words, we can draw life-giving nourishment from them, and inspiration, and encouragement, and consolation, and affirmation.
Scottish National Youth Pilgrimage - Saturday 26 September 2026
Another African Visitor
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 26A, 27 September 2026: Phil 2:1-11
In St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we see him at his happiest. The Christians in Philippi had none of the severe problems that beset other Churches, for example in Galatia or at Corinth. Here was Paul in his prison cell, chained either to a wall or to a soldier, and whenever he thought of the Philippians, he was cheered and consoled.
Homily for Sunday 25A, 20 September 2026
Isaiah 55:6-9; Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a; Matthew 20:1-6
What is the Kingdom of heaven like? What is God’s way of salvation like? What is the Christian life like?
Once upon a time, a householder set out to hire labourers for his vineyard. Our Lord tells us this story, which may perhaps strike us as somewhat bizarre, then he leaves us without any sort of explanation. So that gives us rather a lot of freedom to interpret or apply it as we can.