4 June 2019

Dates announced: Monastic Experience Weekend 2019

4 June 2019

The 2019 Pluscarden Abbey Monastic Experience Weekend will take place from Friday 2nd to Monday 5th August. The weekend is a long-established opportunity…

Pluscarden Abbey

16 May 2019

News & Events

Bach, Gershwin & Pachelbel with The Moray String Quartet - at Pluscarden Abbey

Pluscarden Abbey

16 May 2019

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The Moray String Quartet perform at Pluscarden Abbey on Saturday 25th May at 3.30pm

Pluscarden Abbey

27 April 2019

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Young People at Pluscarden

Pluscarden Abbey

27 April 2019

News & Events

The Pluscarden community is always happy to welcome young people who come to stay at the monastery. Recent groups have included Catholic students from the Universities of Glasgow and of…

Pluscarden Abbey

13 April 2019

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Holy Week and Easter services 2019

Pluscarden Abbey

13 April 2019

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Holy Thursday Liturgy at 7.00 p.m., followed by Compline, and watching until midnight. Good Friday liturgy at 3.00...

Pluscarden Abbey

4 April 2019

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Funeral of Mgr. Robert McDonald

Pluscarden Abbey

4 April 2019

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On Monday 25 March 2019 the Pluscarden community celebrated two Masses. The first was our normal conventual Mass at 10.00 a.m.: celebrated as a Solemnity in honour of the Annunciation of the Lord. The second…

Pluscarden Abbey

5 March 2019

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2019 Pentecost Lectures: “Beauty will save the world” with Fr Martin Boland

Pluscarden Abbey

5 March 2019

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Each year the Abbot and Community of Pluscarden Abbey sponsor a series of four lectures by an invited Theologian on an aspect of Catholic Theology…

Ed Scolding

5 March 2019

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Christopher Francis reviews Tempus per annum CD

Ed Scolding

5 March 2019

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The remarkable variety of the chants on this disc is far from ordinary. The interpretation is thoughtful, and is based on a real understanding of the chant. As the excellently written booklet says, ‘close attention…

Ed Scolding

5 February 2019

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Dame Margaret Truran reviews Tempus per annum CD

Ed Scolding

5 February 2019

News & Events

This is a major CD, presenting twenty-nine chants intrinsic to the annual liturgical cycle that have not often been recorded. The singing, united, flowing and deeply musical, does them full justice. The text of each, with translation…