Previewed in the last issue of this magazine, the Pluscarden Abbey Oblate Handbook has now been published, in both paperback and hard back. It contains a range of chapters on the history of Pluscarden; the history of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation; on St Benedict, his Holy Rule…
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 33C, 16 November 2019, Luke 21:5-19
There’s a great deal of violence and destruction in the pages of Holy Scripture. The Sacred History of Israel is full of murders, disasters, invasions, tyranny, oppression, slaughter. In the Hebrew Prophets we find page after page of threats and warnings of terrible things to come. And the Prophets tell us that these frightful afflictions …