2 November 2016

News & Events

Positive signs regarding the proposed new Dual Carriageway route

2 November 2016

News & Events

People often ask if there has been any news regarding our proposed new dual carriageway. It is well known that the Scottish Government has committed itself to upgrade the current A 96, linking Aberdeen...

Pluscarden Abbey

2 November 2016

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 31C, 30 October 2016, on Luke 19:1-10; 2 Thess 1:11-12

Pluscarden Abbey

2 November 2016

Homilies

Last week we heard the story of a tax collector who did not even dare to raise his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, and cried God be merciful to me a sinner. Today we pass to the next Chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel...

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1 November 2016

News & Events

Pluscarden Community Retreat

Pluscarden Abbey

1 November 2016

News & Events

The Pluscarden Community Retreat was preached during October this year by Fr. Martin McLaughlin, monk of Prinknash Abbey...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 11/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

Our daily reading of Galatians at Mass has brought us providentially today to the beginning of Chapter 5, and to a fine text for the final day of our retreat. After a week of prayer and reflection, we rejoice...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 10/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

We know well that the emphasis of St. Luke in his Gospel is on the mercy and gentleness of Jesus; on his love for sinners, and his tender kindness towards the lowly and the poor. St. Luke also dwells, more than...

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31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 8/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

Jesus knew very well the desire of his Mother to pass by as far as possible unnoticed; to remain always in the background. He knew she hated having attention directed towards herself, or hearing herself praised in public. In his...

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 7/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

After Jesus had ascended into heaven, the Eleven Apostles, with some few others, with one heart and mind, joined together in continuous prayer. This is the first picture given us in the Acts of the Apostles of the early Church: the Church in seed, the Church in her first beginnings...

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

Daily homilies at Quarr Abbey Retreat, 5-12 October: 6/10

Pluscarden Abbey

31 October 2016

Homilies

Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. In the plan of St. Luke’s Gospel, and of our lectionary, immediately after giving us the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus speaks about the prayer of petition...