Surely this is Jesus son of Joseph, whose Father and Mother we know? How can he now say I have come down from heaven? Typically of St. John, these hostile comments of the Jews in the synagogue at Capernaum are fraught with irony...
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 5 July 2015, Sunday 14B
Homily for the Feast of SS. Peter & Paul, 29 June 2015
Homily for the 13th Sunday, Year B, 27 June 2015, on 2 Cor 8:9
Homily for the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Year B, 12 June 2015
Pluscarden Benedictines Magazine #170 - Pentecost 2015
Homily for Easter 5B, 3 May 2015, on John 15:1-8
Monastic Experience weekend 2015
The monks of Pluscarden Abbey offer a special opportunity to see at first hand what monastic life is about, during the weekend Friday 11th September to Monday 14th September 2015.
The invitation is extended to single young men, Catholics who practise their faith, aged 18 - 35.
There will be no charge for the weekend.
Anyone interested is invited to contact us HERE
or write to:
Fr. Benedict Hardy OSB
Pluscarden Abbey
Elgin
Moray IV30 8UA
“The Year for Consecrated Life concerns not only consecrated persons, but the entire Church. Consequently, I ask the whole Christian people to be increasingly aware of the gift which is the presence of our many consecrated men and women, heirs of the great saints who have written the history of Christianity.”
Pope Francis, Apostolic Letter on the Year of Consecrated Life, 21 November 2014.
Pope Francis