Each year the Scottish Catholic Youth Service organises a major Pilgrimage event for teenagers and young adult Catholics. This year the venue was Pluscarden Abbey. So young pilgrims from all over Scotland arrived here around midday on Saturday 26 September
Many visitors to our web site will already know of the sad and highly regrettable decision of the religious Community on Papa Stronsay in Orkney to separate itself from the communion and obedience of the Catholic Church.
In response to the various Covid lockdowns, and the inability then of the faithful to come to Mass, Pluscarden Abbey began to make our liturgy available on the internet via live-streaming. This soon became established as a daily feature for Mass, Vespers and Compline.
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.
