Today’s Gospel scene sets before us the mystery of the Lord’s attractive power, and also, immediately conjoined to that, the mystery of his rejection. We have here an illustration of the truth stated by St. John in his Prologue: He was the light that came into the darkness of our world, and the darkness could not comprehend it. He came to his own, but his own received him not (Jn 1:5,11).
Homily for Sunday 3C; 23 January 2022: Luke 4:14-21
Important: updated dates for oblate events 2022-2023
2022
Updated: 2nd Weekend of Lent: 11th-14th March (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Abbot
Summer: 29th July - 1st August (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Stuart Chalmers, oblate, spiritual director of the Scots College in Spain
2023
Lent: 24th-27th February (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Abbot
Updated: Summer: 18th-21st August (Friday - Monday) - Bishop Richard Moth, oblate
Additionally, we are posting the text of Canon Luke Smith’s conferences and homily given at the 2021 summer retreat. Click here to download.
Canon Luke Smith
Homily for Advent Sunday 1C, 28 November 2021: Luke 21:25-28; 34-36
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 6 November 2021, Sunday 32B: Mark 12:38-44
Homily for Sunday 31B, 31 October 2021: Mark 12:28-34
After the Pluscarden Community retreat
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 29B, 17 October 2021: Mark 10:35-45
As Jesus made his way to Jerusalem, and to his Passion and death, the Apostles James and John put to him a request. In doing so they put us all forever in their debt. Thank God for this instance of tactlessness and stupidity! Their ambitious striving for the top places in the coming Kingdom evoked from Jesus a response that gives us a privileged insight into into his own mind, into the Christian life; into God’s plan of salvation.