13 June 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 10B, 10 June 2018, Mark 3:20-35

13 June 2018

Homilies

We rather rarely have the 10th Sunday of Ordinary time, because it tends to be superceded by Pentecost or Trinity Sunday or Corpus Christi. This year instead we’ve lost Sundays 7, 8 and 9 because of those…

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11 June 2018

Homilies

Homily for the Sacred Heart “B”, 8 June 2018, John 19:31-37

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11 June 2018

Homilies

One of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance. For the Roman soldier, this was a final indignity carried out on the corpse of an executed criminal. For the Jewish authorities, it was a necessary preparation for the…

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26 May 2018

Pentecost Lectures

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26 May 2018

The Twenty Fifth in our series of Pentecost lectures was given this year by the Oxford-based Dominican Scripture scholar Fr. Richard Ounsworth O.P. Fr. Richard gave four lectures…

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26 May 2018

Homilies

Homily for Pentecost Year B, 20 May 2018, on John 15:26-27;16:12-15

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26 May 2018

Homilies

50 days after Christ’s Resurrection from the dead, and 10 days after his Ascension into heaven, the Holy Spirit came in power upon the gathered Apostles. He came under the appearance of wind and fire…

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16 May 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday Easter 7B, 13 May 2018, on Jn 17:11-19

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16 May 2018

Homilies

We have celebrated the feast of the Ascension, 40 days after Easter. Now with the whole Church we wait in a novena of prayer for the culmination and climax of the whole Easter mystery, the feast of Pentecost, which we…

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12 May 2018

Homilies

Homily for the Ascension, 10 May 2018

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12 May 2018

Homilies

You no longer see Jesus, but he has not been taken away from you. On the contrary. In the words of St. Leo the Great: “When he came down to earth he did not leave his heavenly Father, and when he ascended…

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7 May 2018

Homilies

Homily for Easter 6B, Sunday 6 May 2018, on John 15:9-17

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7 May 2018

Homilies

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love. In these privileged final days of Eastertide we listen once again to the words of Jesus at the Last Supper, as handed on to the Church by the Beloved…

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7 May 2018

News & Events

Pluscarden joins Rosary on the Coast

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7 May 2018

News & Events

At 3.00 p.m. on Sunday 29 April 2018 many thousands of people gathered at locations all around the coast of the United Kingdom to pray the rosary. The "Rosary on the Coast" initiative…