Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it? (Is 43:19)
In today’s first reading we heard a brief passage from Isaiah, Chapter 43. Isaiah here speaks in the language of poetry. His words are evocative, musical, stirring: to be savoured and pondered slowly. Clearly they point beyond themselves. We take them very seriously, because we hold them also to be true, and from God.
Once again a good group of oblates gathered at Pluscarden to participate in a special weekend retreat. Their stay coincided with the First Weekend of Lent. The retreat Conductor this year was Mother Winsome Durrant, Superior of the Ordinariate Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, now resident at Aston Hall, Staffordshire.
Each year the Abbot and Community of Pluscarden Abbey sponsor a series of four lectures by an invited Theologian on an aspect of Catholic Theology. Previous Lecturers have included Fr Aidan Nichols OP, Fr Martin Boland, Fr Anthony Meredith SJ, Fr Paul McPartlan, Prof. Carol Zaleski, and Fr Ian Kerr.
Work has been slowly progressing on the re-building of our Lodge, former dwelling of Helen Grant RIP. Our builder Colin Thomson had completed the concrete shell of what had been Helen’s living room. Then in early February this year he was making final preparations before the Joiners came in to set up new timbers for the roof. To his great surprise, tucked away in a corner between the back (East) wall and the old roof timbers, over what had once been the back door, he found a pair of shoes.
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