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Watch scenes from the special liturgies and ceremony of the visit of the Relics of St. Thérèse at Pluscarden Abbey.
Anyone is welcome to visit our Church at any time between 11.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. to pray in the presence of the Relics. 3 special liturgies however are planned…
In St. Luke’s Gospel, Jesus on his way to Jerusalem has been sounding various dark warnings: Alas for you... I tell you, this generation will have to answer for every prophet’s blood (11:50); The Master will come on a day he does not expect and cut him off (12:46); Unless you …
The now annual Pluscarden "Monastic Experience Weekend" took place during the first weekend of August. This year we had fewer applications than we have had in the past. And as always, the list of potential weekenders…
Nothing is more certain than that life is short, and that all of us will have to die. You don’t really need divine revelation to tell you that: it’s been a favourite theme of poets and philosophers throughout the ages. The Wisdom writers of the Old Testament, who were both poets and philosophers, loved to dwell…
The Pluscarden Schola has been recording again recently. We were fortunate to have in late July this year a visit by Dr. Giedrius Gapsys, who is a renowned scholar of Gregorian Chant, and a good friend of our community…
On Wednesday 11 September, between 11.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., Pluscarden Abbey will be honoured by a visit of the Relics of St. Therese of Lisieux. This visit will be part of a tour around all the Catholic Dioceses in Scotland. The full…
In our first reading today we heard the Genesis account of Abraham’s intercession for the City of Sodom. And in the Gospel we heard Jesus teaching his disciples about prayer, especially by giving them the Lord’s Prayer. I should like now to put the two readings together. For convenience though, I take the…
We began our Mass today with a very fine Introit, set in the Third mode. This is the “tonus iratus” – the angry mode – or the anguished mode – or the mode of heightened emotion. Dum clamarem ad Dominum exaudivit vocem meam – When I cried to the Lord he heard my voice; he saved me from those who surrounded me. The text is from…
According to annual custom, Bishop Hugh led a Pilgrimage of the Aberdeen Diocese to Pluscarden on Sunday 30 July. This year in Scotland that day was kept as the transferred Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul. As last year, our Pilgrimage congregation was much enlivened by the…