13 May 2020

News & Events

Flying frogs at Pluscarden

13 May 2020

News & Events

These days have surely been unprecedented not only for CV lock-down, but also for such an unbroken length of lovely Spring sunshine. Here at Pluscarden we have no guests, and almost no visitors either. But the fauna around the Abbey abound. We are…

Pluscarden Abbey

13 May 2020

PluscardenBenedictinesMag

Pluscarden Benedictines No. 189 - Lent 2020

Pluscarden Abbey

13 May 2020

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.

Pluscarden Abbey

5 May 2020

Homilies

Homily for Easter 4A, Sunday 3 May 2020, on John 10:1-10

Pluscarden Abbey

5 May 2020

Homilies

Each year on the Fourth Sunday of Easter we read part of Jesus’ “Good Shepherd” discourse, given in the tenth Chapter of St. John’s Gospel. Jesus first calls himself the Gate of the sheep fold, and then…

Pluscarden Abbey

28 April 2020

Homilies

Homily for Easter 3A, Sunday 26 April 2020, on Luke 24:13-35

Pluscarden Abbey

28 April 2020

Homilies

St. Luke’s account of the Resurrection, the last Chapter of his Gospel, is dominated by the scene of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. You might well think that rather odd. Yes, Luke does briefly mention the…

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21 April 2020

News & Events

Cancellation of the Pentecost Lectures

Pluscarden Abbey

21 April 2020

News & Events

Because of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, with regret we have to announce the cancellation of our 2020 Pentecost Lectures. The Pentecost lectures were an initiative of Abbot Hugh, which…

Pluscarden Abbey

21 April 2020

Homilies

Homily for Low Sunday, 19 April 2020, Year “A”

Pluscarden Abbey

21 April 2020

Homilies

When Pope John Paul II first proclaimed today as a universal Feast of the Divine Mercy, there were plenty of liturgists who tut-tutted. Easter, with its eight days, they rightly pointed out, is the most important feast or celebration in the…

Pluscarden Abbey

12 April 2020

Homilies

Homily for Easter Day, 12 April 2020

Pluscarden Abbey

12 April 2020

Homilies

“Well, Master Samwise, how do you feel?” said Gandalf. But Sam lay back, and stared with open mouth, and for a moment, between bewilderment and joy, he could not answer. At last…

Pluscarden Abbey

12 April 2020

Homilies

Homily for the Easter Vigil, 11 April 2020

Pluscarden Abbey

12 April 2020

Homilies

After the worst possible thing: the best possible thing. No: better even than that. Far, far better. Still each year when we keep this Vigil, the newness of it, the magnitude of it, catches us as if in the throat. The explosion of new life. No, better than just…