St. Luke’s account of Christ’s Resurrection from the dead is similar to that of St. John. Both have the startlingly sudden appearance among the assembled Apostles on Easter Day, with the greeting “Peace be...
Friday 13 April 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the first pioneer monks at Pluscarden in 1948. Abbot Wilfred Upson of Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire sent five of his monks to begin the...
This year with an early Easter the Feast of the Annunciation has been transferred, and we find ourselves celebrating it in Eastertide. So we approach the mystery of today’s Feast as if shining with Easter...
St. John speaks of the joy of the disciples on Easter Day with masterful understatement. His words are few, plain, unadorned, because the joy of which he speaks is in principle beyond the power of words: too great, too...
St. Joseph is normally so modest and unassuming that if we’re not careful we can pass him by without even noticing. Recently though he came very prominently to the attention of the monks of Pluscarden, when a near...
