On Wednesday 11 September, between 11.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., Pluscarden Abbey will be honoured by a visit of the Relics of St. Therese of Lisieux. This visit will be part of a tour around all the Catholic Dioceses in Scotland. The full…
Homily for Sunday 17C, 28 July 2019: Genesis 18:20-32; Luke 11:1-13
In our first reading today we heard the Genesis account of Abraham’s intercession for the City of Sodom. And in the Gospel we heard Jesus teaching his disciples about prayer, especially by giving them the Lord’s Prayer. I should like now to put the two readings together. For convenience though, I take the…
Homily given at Quarr Abbey, Wednesday 17 July by the Prior of Pluscarden
We began our Mass today with a very fine Introit, set in the Third mode. This is the “tonus iratus” – the angry mode – or the anguished mode – or the mode of heightened emotion. Dum clamarem ad Dominum exaudivit vocem meam – When I cried to the Lord he heard my voice; he saved me from those who surrounded me. The text is from…