Sr. Tamsin Geach O.P. is a Dominican Sister and long standing friend of our community.
She is offering a preached retreat here at the Abbey over the first weekend in August.
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Trinity Sunday “C”, 15 June 2025
Homily for Pentecost, Year C: Sunday 8 June 2025
Acts 2:1-11 Romans 8:8-17 John 14:15-16,23-26
The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz composed his personal version of the Veni Creator:
"Come, Holy Spirit, / Bending or not bending the grasses, / Appearing or not above our heads in a tongue of flame, / At hay harvest or when they plough in the orchards or when snow / Covers crippled firs in the Sierra Nevada. /
Dom Columba Jennesson OSB
Fr. Prior’s Homily for the Ascension Year C, Thursday 29 May 2025 Acts 1:1-11 Heb 9:24-28,10:19-23 Luke 24:46-53
According to St Leo the Great, and many other commentators, Jesus kept appearing to his disciples for forty days so that they would recognize as truly risen One whom they knew as truly born, as him who truly suffered, and truly died. “The result was that not only were they not afflicted with sadness, but were filled with great joy when the Lord went into the heights of heaven” (Sermon 73:4).
Bread Alone
Recently during lunch times the Pluscarden community has listened to a book about Ultra-Processed Food.
The conclusions of this book are rather alarming.
It seems that a lot of what we eat contains ultra-processed ingredients which are, or may be, by and large, harmful. That is: these ingredients are (or may be) harmful to health, to the environment, to the global economy, to the poor.
The War in Ukraine Comes to Pluscarden
The war in Ukraine was brought somehow more immediately close to the Pluscarden community recently through the moving testimony of a Ukranian guest.
Anastasia Rozdolska is a 28 year old medical doctor who was with us in late May this year: enjoying a Scottish and Pilgrim break from her work on the front line of the war.