The Pluscarden bees have had quite a happy year so far, as we write at the end of July 2026. Reports of terrible heat waves, droughts and wild fires have reached our Northly Glen, but we have been lucky, enjoying periods with warm sunshine, never excessive, and also of welcome rain.
Homily for Sunday 15A, 12 July 2026: Isaiah 55:10-11; Matthew 13:1-23
Homily for the Solemnity of St. Benedict, 11 July 2026
Visit of the Visitor
Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden, Sunday 28 June 2026
Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden, Sunday 28 June 2026
To report on this year’s Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden, one could almost repeat what was written last year: https://www.pluscardenabbey.org/newsandevents/2025/7/2/annual-aberdeen-diocesan-pilgrimage-to-pluscarden-sunday-29-july-2025
Pluscarden Benedictines No. 214 News and Notes for our Friends Summer 2026
Pluscarden Benedictines No. 213 News and Notes for our Friends Spring 2026
Fr. Prior Simon’s Homily for the Nativity of St John the Baptist (Second Patronal Feast of Pluscarden Abbey)
24 June 2026
Isaiah 49:1-6; Acts 13:22-26; Luke 1:57-66.80
Today we are celebrating the birthday of a great prophet, and more than a prophet – the Forerunner, the Precursor to Christ our Lord himself. The voice which would become “the voice crying out in the wilderness” cried out for the first time as little John emerged from his mother's womb.