• 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Homily for Ash Wednesday

    Those of us familiar with the Lord of the Rings will remember a scene near the beginning. Frodo is in his hobbit hole in the Shire, that good, green, wholesome, […]

  • Scottish Government Consultation on Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

    The Scottish Government is holding a public consultation regarding a proposed Bill on Gender Recognition Reform. The consultation is open until 17 March.

  • 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

    STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES (CCEE) AND FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION OF THE BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (COMECE) ON THE 75th ANNIVERSARY […]

  • Homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

    Brothers and Sisters, as your bishop, my great longing is that Christ be real to us. Ever more real. Real, though physically unseen. Real to the eyes of faith. Real […]

     

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