28 February 2017

News & Events

Concert to support Pluscarden Abbey Pilgrimage Appeal

28 February 2017

News & Events

As part of the Pluscarden 1230 Pilgrimage fundraising programme for the South Range Project, a concert is to be held in St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen on Wednesday 12th April 2017, starting at 19:30...

Pluscarden Abbey

17 February 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 6, Year A 2017

Pluscarden Abbey

17 February 2017

Homilies

Today’s Gospel passage continues on from last week’s. We are still listening to the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus is sitting and teaching on a mountainside. He is Jewish and is talking about the things of God, so...

Ed Scolding

17 February 2017

News & Events

Winter at Pluscarden

Ed Scolding

17 February 2017

News & Events

Photos from earlier in the year.
Pluscarden in the snow and moon; Chapter house ceiling; kitchen; Refectory.

Pluscarden Abbey

14 February 2017

News & Events

February at Pluscarden

Pluscarden Abbey

14 February 2017

News & Events

Winter aconites and snowdrops on front drive; scaffolding on church for new work.

Ed Scolding

11 February 2017

News & Events

Visit from St. Andrews University Catholic Society

Ed Scolding

11 February 2017

News & Events

This weekend a group of 36 students from St. Andrews University Catholic Society visited Pluscarden Abbey for a weekend retreat, where

Ed Scolding

11 February 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 5A, 5 February 2017, on Matthew 5:13-16

Ed Scolding

11 February 2017

Homilies

In the Beatitudes we heard last week, Jesus spells out the standard of holiness expected of those whose lives are conformed to his life. This is very great: far beyond what we are capable of achieving on our own. In the...

Ed Scolding

7 February 2017

News & Events

Relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe visit Pluscarden

Ed Scolding

7 February 2017

News & Events

Pluscarden Abbey was very blessed and honoured on Saturday 21 January 2017 to receive a visit of relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe. The relics were brought by four Conventual Franciscan Friars. They joined us for our conventual Mass, at which one of them preached...

Pluscarden Abbey

1 February 2017

Homilies

Sermon for Sunday 4A, Matthew 5:1-12 at Edinburgh University Catholic Chaplaincy

Pluscarden Abbey

1 February 2017

Homilies

We begin today a reading of the Sermon on the Mount, according to St. Matthew's Gospel. We will hear more of this over the next four Sundays, after which the cycle will be interrupted by lent. The Sermon on the Mount begins with...