Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent Year “A”, 29 March 2020, on John 11

29 March 2020

Homilies

The raising of Lazarus is the last and greatest of the seven signs of Jesus reported by St. John. Coming immediately before the account of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, it clearly in…

Pluscarden Abbey

6 August 2019

Homilies

Homily given at the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 18 C, 4 August 2019, Luke 12:13-21

Pluscarden Abbey

6 August 2019

Homilies

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…

Pluscarden Abbey

22 March 2018

Homilies

Homily for the Feast of St. Joseph 19 March 2018

Pluscarden Abbey

22 March 2018

Homilies

St. Joseph is normally so modest and unassuming that if we’re not careful we can pass him by without even noticing. Recently though he came very prominently to the attention of the monks of Pluscarden, when a near...

Ed Scolding

6 April 2017

Homilies

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent Year “A”, 1 April

Ed Scolding

6 April 2017

Homilies

With just two weeks now until Easter, we have reached the climax of the three long Gospel passages from St. John, read successively on the third, fourth and fifth Sundays of Lent. In turn we have heard John’s account of the meeting with...