Month: March 2020

• 13/03/2020

  Prayer to the God of Life in a Time of Illness

  Almighty Father, Look upon us and all of humanity, in this time of illness, as we are affected by this new epidemic of the coronavirus. We confide to you all […]

• 08/03/2020

  Homily for 2nd Sunday of Lent

  “There in their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as light.” Why do we have this Gospel this Sunday? We […]

• 06/03/2020

  Clothing of Two New Novices

  On Wednesday 4 March 2020, which for the Pluscarden community is the Eve of the Solemnity of St. Aelred, our two postulants were clothed together as novices. In a beautiful […]

• 05/03/2020

  Fr James & Fr Max in BBC film “Our Fathers”

  The story of two Nigerian priests who due to a shortage of priests were sent to the Scottish Highlands is the topic of a new BBC documentary.

• 04/03/2020

  Precautions regarding Coronavirus

  Given the growing concerns about the spread of the Coronavirus, and the increasing likelihood of it affecting us widely in Scotland, it seems the right moment to take further precautionary […]

• 02/03/2020

  Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent

  How good to begin this Sunday with the Litany of the Saints! Immediately we feel helped. Whenever the Litany of the Saints is sung, it’s because something big is going […]