6 September 2018

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 22B, 2 September 2018, on Mark 7:1-23 (with omissions)

6 September 2018

Homilies

The ritual purifications of the law were only ever meant to be symbolic. They were an outward sign of the human need to be clean before God, to be reconciled with him, to be in communion with him. The Old Testament is…

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28 August 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 26 August 2018, Sunday 21B, John 6:60-69

Pluscarden Abbey

28 August 2018

Homilies

These days many are speaking of leaving the Catholic Church, and stopping going with her, not because of her divine teaching, but because of the sins and infidelities of her official representatives. The latest revelations about clerical abuse, both…

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28 August 2018

Oblate news & events

Oblate Weekend 2018 takes place

Pluscarden Abbey

28 August 2018

Oblate news & events

Some 24 Oblates of Pluscarden came for the special Oblate Weekend 17-20 August 2018. Talks on the Oblate life were given by Rt. Rev. Richard Moth, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, formerly Catholic Bishop of…

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28 August 2018

News & Events

Visit from Lord Alton

Pluscarden Abbey

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…