It has been a while since our last Monastic Experience Weekend: the last we had was in August 2018. Perhaps because of that lacuna, a lot of interest was expressed in this proposed event. As many as 18 men applied.
Haydn’s “Creation” at Pluscarden Abbey
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
Annual Aberdeen Diocesan Pilgrimage to Pluscarden: Sunday 30 July 2024; the transferred Feast of SS. Peter and Paul
RESIGNATION OF THE ABBATIAL OFFICE BY FR. ABBOT ANSELM
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.