12 December 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 2 December 2018, Advent 1C: Ps 24:1-3; Lk 21:25-36

12 December 2018

Homilies

Today’s Entrance Antiphon offers us the first three verses of Psalm 24(25): To you I lift up my soul, O my God. This same text is given in the lectionary as the Responsorial Psalm after the first reading; or, in the Roman Gradual, as the Chant at…

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30 October 2018

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 30B, 28 October 2018, Psalm 104:3-4; Mark 10:46-52

Pluscarden Abbey

30 October 2018

Homilies

Our new CD recording opens with today’s Entrance Chant, Laetetur cor. This Chant is very ancient. It’s rather brief; largely made up from stock formulae; unadventurous in range and development, and with a simple structure. It’s also a work of musical genius…

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30 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 17B, 28 July 2018, on John 6:1-15

Pluscarden Abbey

30 July 2018

Homilies

The Roman Gradual offers five proper Chants for the Mass of each Sunday: the Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion. We don’t know who selected the texts for these Chants, or who composed the music, or where…

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24 October 2017

News & Events

New music releases on Ffin Records

Pluscarden Abbey

24 October 2017

News & Events

Our recordings of Gregorian chant made between 1997 and 2012 have been remastered by Ffin Records, a specialist record label based in Cardiff...

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18 April 2017

News & Events

Fund-raising Concert in Aberdeen

Pluscarden Abbey

18 April 2017

News & Events

On Wednesday 12th of April a Fund-raising Concert was held in St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral Aberdeen. The Concert was in support of the Pluscarden Abbey 1230 Pilgrimage, which itself is in support of the new South Range Building...