Pluscarden Abbey

6 September 2016

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 23C, 4 September 2016, on Luke 14:25-33

Pluscarden Abbey

6 September 2016

Homilies

Anyone who does not carry his Cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

In today’s Gospel Jesus seems to do all he can to put people off from following him. No sane, reasonable person, he seems to say, would...

Pluscarden Abbey

30 August 2016

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 21C 2016

Pluscarden Abbey

30 August 2016

Homilies

Today’s Gospel begins with a reminder that Jesus is making his way to Jerusalem and to what awaits him there. This gives a context to his sayings in this part of the...

Pluscarden Abbey

23 August 2016

Monastic Experience, News & Events

Our Monastic Experience Weekend!

Pluscarden Abbey

23 August 2016

Monastic Experience, News & Events

Pluscarden's Monastic Experience Weekend ran from Friday 19th to Monday 22nd August. A fine group of young men attended. The weekenders joined the community in Choir for Mass, for the...

Pluscarden Abbey

22 August 2016

News & Events

Visit from African Congregation Sisters

Pluscarden Abbey

22 August 2016

News & Events

The Diocese of Aberdeen has recently welcomed Sisters from two new African Congregations. Three Daughters of Divine Love are now established in Inverness, and three...

Pluscarden Abbey

20 August 2016

News & Events

Fr. Bede is elected Prior of Kristo Buase Monastery, Ghana

Pluscarden Abbey

20 August 2016

News & Events

On Saturday 6 August, the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Abbot President of the Subiaco-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation, Dom Bruno Marin, signed...

Pluscarden Abbey

20 August 2016

Homilies

Homily for 14 August 2016, Sunday 20C, on Luke 12:49-53

Pluscarden Abbey

20 August 2016

Homilies

On Monday 23 November 1654, something happened to the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Paschal which transformed his life for ever...

Pluscarden Abbey

9 August 2016

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 17C, 2016

Pluscarden Abbey

9 August 2016

Homilies

“Praeceptis salutaribus moniti et divina institutione formati, audemus dicere”… With these words later in this Mass I will introduce the Lord’s Prayer. In the official English translation this is: “At the Saviour’s command and...

Pluscarden Abbey

2 August 2016

News & Events

International meeting of on-going monastic formation

Pluscarden Abbey

2 August 2016

News & Events

At the initiative of our Abbot President Dom Bruno Marin, Pluscarden this summer hosted an international meeting of on-going monastic formation for monks and nuns.

The theme of the meeting was...