September 24, 2018

News & Events

Temporary road closure to Pluscarden

September 24, 2018

News & Events

Moray Council have begun works on a stretch of road close to the monastery which cuts us off from Elgin by the normal route. The rather brief stretch of road between Pluscarden Kirk and the Village Hall is officially…

Pluscarden Abbey

September 6, 2018

Homilies

Homily for the Feast of St. Gregory the Great, 3 September 2018

Pluscarden Abbey

September 6, 2018

Homilies

These familiar words are taken from the account of the Last Supper in St. Luke’s Gospel. They are an appropriate choice for the feast of St. Gregory, who described himself as Servus servorum Dei - the Servant of the servants of God. That…

Pluscarden Abbey

September 6, 2018

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 22B, 2 September 2018, on Mark 7:1-23 (with omissions)

Pluscarden Abbey

September 6, 2018

Homilies

The ritual purifications of the law were only ever meant to be symbolic. They were an outward sign of the human need to be clean before God, to be reconciled with him, to be in communion with him. The Old Testament is…

Pluscarden Abbey

August 28, 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 26 August 2018, Sunday 21B, John 6:60-69

Pluscarden Abbey

August 28, 2018

Homilies

These days many are speaking of leaving the Catholic Church, and stopping going with her, not because of her divine teaching, but because of the sins and infidelities of her official representatives. The latest revelations about clerical abuse, both…

Pluscarden Abbey

August 28, 2018

Oblate news & events

Oblate Weekend 2018 takes place

Pluscarden Abbey

August 28, 2018

Oblate news & events

Some 24 Oblates of Pluscarden came for the special Oblate Weekend 17-20 August 2018. Talks on the Oblate life were given by Rt. Rev. Richard Moth, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, formerly Catholic Bishop of…

Pluscarden Abbey

August 28, 2018

News & Events

Visit from Lord Alton

Pluscarden Abbey

August 28, 2018

News & Events

The Pluscarden community was delighted to welcome David Lord Alton with his wife Elizabeth to Sunday Mass on 19 August 208. Lord Alton is…

Ed Scolding

August 8, 2018

Monastic Experience, News & Events

Monastic Experience Weekend 2018

Ed Scolding

August 8, 2018

Monastic Experience, News & Events

The number of applicants for our Monastic Experience Weekend this year very considerably exceeded the number of available spaces. But providentially, in…

Pluscarden Abbey

August 8, 2018

News & Events

Unusual guests

Pluscarden Abbey

August 8, 2018

News & Events

Three Sikh gentlemen came to stay at Pluscarden for some days at the beginning of August this year. They wanted to explore Catholic Christianity in an environment of prayer and peace. They assisted at all…