The front of our Lodge House has been lying in ruins for a long time now.
Various factors contributed to the lack of progress there.
But now at last things are moving.
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family, 29 December 2024: Luke 2:41-52 DJC
Pluscarden Benedictines No. 208 News and Notes for our Friends Winter 2024
Pluscarden Benedictines No. 207 News and Notes for our Friends Autumn 2024
Fr. Prior Simon’s Christmas Day Homily 2024
God created the world ex nihilo, out of nothing, meaning that there had been nothing there before, of course, but also that the stuff that the world is made out of is simply nothingness.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through him, in him was life” – outside of him nothing at all.
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Dawn Mass of Christmas Day; 25 December 2024 (Isaiah 9:1-6); Luke 2:15-20
Lux fulgebit hodie super nos – Today a light will shine upon us, for the Lord is born for us. This is the text for the Entrance Antiphon of today’s Mass. The ancient Gregorian Chant setting for this is in the noble Eighth mode. The Antiphon is a slightly adapted version of verses from Isaiah Chapter 9. The Oracle of Isaiah Chapter 9 is one of the strongest, most explicit, most exalted of all the Messianic Prophecies of the Old Testament.
Fr. Prior Simon’s Christmas Midnight Mass Homily 2024
Fr. Prior Simon’s Christmas Eve Chapter Homily 2024
In a few hours we will celebrate the birth of Christ, God's appearing in flesh among us. But now, liturgically speaking, he is still hidden within Mary, still undergoing baptism in her womb, though both of them probably can't wait for it to be over. In any case, for now we can still see only Mary and her husband Joseph. So let's look at them, as they sit quietly having breakfast in Bethlehem perhaps.