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For you my soul is thirsting, O Lord, my God.
That was the response we repeated in between the verses of today’s Psalm, following today’s first reading. Psalm 62 (63 in Hebrew numbering) is surely one of the most loved and lovely of all the Psalms.
Pluscarden Abbey was happy to welcome a group from "YouCan" ("Young Catholic Adults Network") once again for a weekend retreat, 30 October - 1 November 2026.
Gaudeamus in Domino, we sang as we came into Mass today. Let us rejoice in the Lord! Today’s feast is a holyday of obligation, a solemnity taking precedence even over Sunday, and it’s a day of joy for the whole Church, and for all of us.
Fr. Prior Simon
Today we get a very entertaining passage from Matthew's Gospel, short but full of tension and drama, sarcasm and wit. It all happens after Our Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the cleansing of the Temple. Riding on the wave of popular support, as it were, Jesus has swept right into what was the very centre of political power and religious devotion for the Jewish people.
On the South side of the monastery stands a beautiful walnut tree. Our photographs here show the tree in late Autumn, after all the nuts have been shed.
The Pluscarden Poultry Enterprise has recently expanded, to include now 6 beautiful Emden geese: 5 female geese and 1 gander.
Today’s second reading gives us just 4 verses from Philippians. The passage is very familiar: a wonderful one to take very slowly, reading it word by word as a prayerful lectio divina. Chewing over these words, we can draw life-giving nourishment from them, and inspiration, and encouragement, and consolation, and affirmation.
Each year the Scottish Catholic Youth Service organises a major Pilgrimage event for teenagers and young adult Catholics. This year the venue was Pluscarden Abbey. So young pilgrims from all over Scotland arrived here around midday on Saturday 26 September
Towards the end of September the Pluscarden community was delighted to welcome once again Fr. Antony Buaful, now sub-Prior of Transfiguration Monastery, Kristo Buase, Ghana.
In St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we see him at his happiest. The Christians in Philippi had none of the severe problems that beset other Churches, for example in Galatia or at Corinth. Here was Paul in his prison cell, chained either to a wall or to a soldier, and whenever he thought of the Philippians, he was cheered and consoled.