28 August 2018

News & Events

Visit from Lord Alton

28 August 2018

News & Events

The Pluscarden community was delighted to welcome David Lord Alton with his wife Elizabeth to Sunday Mass on 19 August 208. Lord Alton is…

Ed Scolding

8 August 2018

Monastic Experience, News & Events

Monastic Experience Weekend 2018

Ed Scolding

8 August 2018

Monastic Experience, News & Events

The number of applicants for our Monastic Experience Weekend this year very considerably exceeded the number of available spaces. But providentially, in…

Pluscarden Abbey

8 August 2018

News & Events

Unusual guests

Pluscarden Abbey

8 August 2018

News & Events

Three Sikh gentlemen came to stay at Pluscarden for some days at the beginning of August this year. They wanted to explore Catholic Christianity in an environment of prayer and peace. They assisted at all…

Pluscarden Abbey

30 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 17B, 28 July 2018, on John 6:1-15

Pluscarden Abbey

30 July 2018

Homilies

The Roman Gradual offers five proper Chants for the Mass of each Sunday: the Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion. We don’t know who selected the texts for these Chants, or who composed the music, or where…

Pluscarden Abbey

26 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 22 July 2018, Sunday 16B, Mark 6:30-34

Pluscarden Abbey

26 July 2018

Homilies

One of the characteristic features, and curses, of modern life is excessive busyness. With all our labour saving devices and computer automation, the pace of life seems to get just faster all the time. So many people these days have…

Pluscarden Abbey

12 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass for Sunday 14B, 8 July 2018, on 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Pluscarden Abbey

12 July 2018

Homilies

Today’s Second Reading is the last in the sequence we’ve been having from 2 Corinthians. This is the letter St. Paul wrote at a time when the loyalty of the Corinthians to him was wavering, and the relationship…

Pluscarden Abbey

9 July 2018

News & Events

New information boards for visitors

Pluscarden Abbey

9 July 2018

News & Events

Visitors to the monastery very frequently remark upon the peace and tranquillity of Pluscarden, and the beauty of its surroundings, and how natural and easy it is to sense God's presence and holiness here. They express wonder…

Pluscarden Abbey

4 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 13B, 1 July 2018, 2 Corinthians 8:7,9,13-15

Pluscarden Abbey

4 July 2018

Homilies

One of St. Paul’s preoccupations during his missionary journeys was fund raising, or the collection of money. He thought it very important that his Gentile Christian converts should support the Jewish Christians…