25 November 2019

Dates announced for the Pluscarden Monastic Experience Weekend 2020

25 November 2019

Participants will join the monks in their daily prayer and work, and will be offered a close-up insight into some of the treasures of the monastic tradition. The weekend should be interesting, enjoyable, and grace-filled. It may…

Ed Scolding

18 November 2019

News & Events

Abbot Cuthbert Brogan OSB elected Visitor at Provincial Chapter

Ed Scolding

18 November 2019

News & Events

In September 2019 the Chapter of the Province of Monasteries to which Pluscarden belongs met at Montserrat in Spain. This was the regular Provincial Chapter, held according to our Constitutions once…

Pluscarden Abbey

18 November 2019

News & Events

Opening ceremony for new car park

Pluscarden Abbey

18 November 2019

News & Events

On Monday 11 November our new car park was officially opened by the Scottish Government Minister for Culture and Tourism, Fiona Hyslop MSP. A small crowd of our local friends and supporters gathered…

Pluscarden Abbey

17 November 2019

News & Events

Annual Community Retreat

Pluscarden Abbey

17 November 2019

News & Events

This year the preacher of our annual Community Retreat, 9-16 November, has been Dom Friedhelm Tissen OSB, Abbot of the Monastery of Kornelimunster near Aachen in Germany. Aachen was…

Pluscarden Abbey

17 November 2019

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 32C, 10 November 2019, Luke 20:27-38

Pluscarden Abbey

17 November 2019

Homilies

Some Sadducees put a question to Jesus. The Sadducees do not come across here or elsewhere as a very admirable or attractive group. Josephus tells us that they dominated the Jewish aristocracy and the…

Pluscarden Abbey

22 October 2019

News & Events

Property developer plans houses near the Abbey

Pluscarden Abbey

22 October 2019

News & Events

On 3rd September, a bid was made by a property developer to obtain planning permission to build 12 new detached family houses, with a total of 38 bedrooms and 24 car parking spaces on a plot of land beside…

Pluscarden Abbey

22 October 2019

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 20 October 2019, Sunday 29C, on Luke 18:1-8

Pluscarden Abbey

22 October 2019

Homilies

The parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge doesn’t work in the way most parables do. The Judge in the story is precisely not an image or figure of God. In fact, he’s the opposite of God in every respect, except that in the end he grants the widow’s…

Pluscarden Abbey

15 October 2019

PluscardenBenedictinesMag

Pluscarden Benedictines No. 187 - September 2019

Pluscarden Abbey

15 October 2019

PluscardenBenedictinesMag

The quarterly magazine which generally includes a letter from Fr Abbot, a diary of recent activity at the Abbey, book reviews and articles by monks, oblates or visitors.