These days, more and more, the Pluscarden brethren are aware of our need to pray for vocations: to ask the Lord to send us men, who want to be, and will become, monks.
Visit of the Visitor
Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden, Sunday 28 June 2026
Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden, Sunday 28 June 2026
To report on this year’s Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden, one could almost repeat what was written last year: https://www.pluscardenabbey.org/newsandevents/2025/7/2/annual-aberdeen-diocesan-pilgrimage-to-pluscarden-sunday-29-july-2025
Pluscarden Benedictines No. 214 News and Notes for our Friends Summer 2026
Pluscarden Benedictines No. 213 News and Notes for our Friends Spring 2026
Fr. Prior Simon’s Homily for the Nativity of St John the Baptist (Second Patronal Feast of Pluscarden Abbey)
24 June 2026
Isaiah 49:1-6; Acts 13:22-26; Luke 1:57-66.80
Today we are celebrating the birthday of a great prophet, and more than a prophet – the Forerunner, the Precursor to Christ our Lord himself. The voice which would become “the voice crying out in the wilderness” cried out for the first time as little John emerged from his mother's womb.
New Tarmac Paths
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 11A, 14 June 2026: Romans 5:6-11
Today’s second reading gave us some verses from Romans Chapter 5. Romans Chapter 5 is one of those texts people build their lives on. This is a passage with an inbuilt potential really to hit you between the eyes. Paul’s message is so thrilling that if you would only allow its impact to sink in, you’d be dancing about and singing.