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Pluscarden Pentecost lectures 2023

r Abbot and the Community of Pluscarden Abbey
are delighted to announce that this year’s Pentecost
FLectures will, God willing, be held once again live
at the abbey, in St Scholastica’s Guesthouse, from the
afternoon of Tuesday May 30 until the morning of June
1. This year’s lecturer will be Fr Richard Price, a retired
priest in the Archdiocese of Westminster and a former
lecturer at Heythrop College. His overall theme will
be “Living the Faith in the World of Today” but each
lecture will be self-contained.
This series of talks addresses a broad range of problems –
from that of living in an increasingly godless society to that
posed by doubts as it how to read scripture.
It speaks of the need to cultivate one’s own spiritual
perception of the world, and uses an autobiography by a
nineteenth-century Italian to illustrate how to maintain
Christian patience and charity in a context where we have
to depend on our inner resources rather on a supportive
environment, for that is the situation of a Christian today.

Living the faith in the world of today
What new challenges does the modern
world present to Christian believers? What
are they, and how can they be coped with?

Four talks by Fr Richard Price

Tuesday 30th May at 3.00 pm Wednesday 31st May at 3.00 pm

Faith in a Society without Faith Silvio Pellico as Model Christian for Today

Wednesday 31st May at 10.30 am Thursday 1st June at 10.30 am
Reading the Bible Today Religion and Experience

r. Matthew Tylor OSB died peacefully in the presence of
his brethren, in Pluscarden Abbey monastery infirmary,
Fjust before the 9 o'clock conventual Mass on Thursday 9
February.
Fr Matthew took his first vows as a Benedictine monk at Quarr
Abbey on the Feast of Our Lady's birthday, 8 September 1962. He
came up to Pluscarden in 2003, and established his stability there
in 2005.
Last year he celebrated 60 years of his monastic vows and more
recently, 50 years as a Priest.
Fr Abbot Anselm, in his homily at the funeral for Fr Tylor, remarked
on his unfailing cheerfulness and his smile: "The truth was that his
smile reflected not what was in him but what he saw in you: the
happiness that he wished and hoped for in you. And because he
was not a superficial person, this was something that went deep:
he always hoped to find a loving and responsive heart. This is why
his smiles and gestures had the quality of a blessing."

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