News & Events

Building Progress 6 August 2024

It has been two months since the last report on this web site about our current building operations.

Externally during this time, daily change has become somewhat less dramatic than during the early months of building. Nevertheless, very much work has most certainly been done. Without question our new St. Joseph’s guest house will be a very fine and very substantial building.

The Ordinariate Mass at Birnie Kirk 3 August 2024

Not far from Pluscarden, just on the other side of the River Lossie, stands the small Church of Birnie, dedicated to St. Brendan. By repute St. Brendan himself is said to have visited the site, and indeed to have established a Church there, in place of a pagan shrine, in the early 6th century.

Annual Aberdeen Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden: Sunday 30 July 2024; the transferred Feast of SS. Peter and Paul

Once again this year our Bishop and Brother Hugh led the annual Aberdeen Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden. The weather was kind to us: a fair day, without either hot sunshine or rain, enabling many to picnic in our grounds before the Mass, in festive atmosphere.

The Roof goes on, and Sleeping Joseph is completed

Work on our new ladies' Guest House, St. Joseph's, is progressing quite rapidly.

In one of our pictures given below you see 9 men working at once, not untypically, on the roof.

At the time of writing this news post, the roof's skeleton frame is covered by planks and a membrane, and the 5 North-facing Dormer Window frames are in place. The slaters are at work in a shed to the side, sorting out their slates, ready to start going on.