7 September 2020

Homilies

Brief Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 23A, 6 September 2020, Romans 13:8-10

7 September 2020

Homilies

Last week we heard St. Paul tell us to worship God with our whole life (cf. Rm 12:1-2). That’s the first commandment: love of God. Now we hear him telling us to love our neighbour: the second…

Pluscarden Abbey

31 August 2020

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 22A, 30 August 2020: Romans 12:1-2

Pluscarden Abbey

31 August 2020

Homilies

The text we heard from Romans in today’s second reading is very familiar to Pluscarden monks in its Latin version. Obsecro (itaque) vos fratres, per misericordiam Dei... These words of St. Paul are sung in several different contexts as a short…

Pluscarden Abbey

28 July 2020

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 17A, 26 July 2020, Romans 8:28-30

Pluscarden Abbey

28 July 2020

Homilies

Of all St. Paul’s Letters, Romans is the longest, richest, densest, most difficult, most rewarding, most challenging, most perplexing, most commented on, most thoroughly Jewish, most obscurely Rabbinical, most radically universal in its all-embracing…

Pluscarden Abbey

13 November 2017

Homilies

Homily for the Funeral of Dom Adrian Walker, OSB

Pluscarden Abbey

13 November 2017

Homilies

In today’s Gospel (from St John), and others we have been hearing recently at weekday Mass (from St Luke), our Lord has been saying the one, same thing: ‘you are invited to a banquet.’ ‘Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God’ someone said at...

Pluscarden Abbey

25 July 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 16A, 23 July 2017, on Romans 8:26-27

Pluscarden Abbey

25 July 2017

Homilies

I should like to speak about the two verses from Romans which we had in our second reading today. This being St. Paul, and especially his letter to...

Ed Scolding

14 January 2017

Homilies

Homily for the Requiem of Br Meinrad Gibson OSB (13/1/17)

Ed Scolding

14 January 2017

Homilies

‘It will be said on that day, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation”.’
It’s a beautiful thing happening today. The soul of our much-loved Br Meinrad is being taken up in the Eucharistic arms of Mother Church...

Pluscarden Abbey

6 June 2016

Homilies

Homily for the Feast of the Sacred Heart Year C: 3 June 2016

Pluscarden Abbey

6 June 2016

Homilies

In the year 597 before Christ, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem, deposed its King, and deported many of its leading men to