Sometimes we receive requests for updated information about our current policies on receiving visitors and guests at the Abbey. Unfortunately these days the hoped-for process of…
Each day at Lauds and Vespers the Abbot recites the Lord’s Prayer aloud. St Benedict tells us that it is so that the members of the Community will hear the words: “Forgive us as we forgive.” By the daily repetition of the prayer, we learn to…
Last week we heard St. Paul tell us to worship God with our whole life (cf. Rm 12:1-2). That’s the first commandment: love of God. Now we hear him telling us to love our neighbour: the second…
24 August 2020 marked the twenty fifth anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood of Frs. Benedict Hardy and Ambrose Flavell. Fr. Benedict is currently Prior and novice master at the Abbey. Fr. Ambrose now finds himself a Priest of…
The text we heard from Romans in today’s second reading is very familiar to Pluscarden monks in its Latin version. Obsecro (itaque) vos fratres, per misericordiam Dei... These words of St. Paul are sung in several different contexts as a short…
God the Holy Trinity is perfectly blessed in Himself. He is an infinity of subsistent being, needing nothing whatever outside himself. God the Father eternally begets God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit eternally proceeds from Father and…
On Sunday 16 August 2020, the transferred Feast of the Assumption, Dom Martin Birrell joyfully celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his monastic vows. Especially in view of his role as Oblate Master, there were numerous oblates and friends of the community…
