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Reception at Greyfriars Convent in Elgin

HE FEAST OF and Fr. Len and Fr.
T TCHRIST THE KING, Cameron were joined
Sunday 26th November 2023, by Fr. Martin Birrell
was a special day for Rob OSB from Pluscarden
Birnie who was received into Abbey who had played a
the Catholic Church through part in Rob’s formation
the Personal Ordinariate of along with the Sisters
Our Lady of Walsingham in and Bryan Miller.
Greyfriars Convent in Elgin Rob is now part of
by Fr. Len Black. the ecumenical team
involved at Birnie and
The Mass was sung to the we assure him of our
setting Missa de Angelis by the prayers as he beings this
Dominican Sisters at Greyfriars new journey in the faith.

From Greyfriars to Pluscarden and back!

HEN THE Sisters of Mercy Greyfriars Statue of Our Lady back to
W Wsadly left Greyfriars Convent its original home.
Elgin in 2010, they bequeathed
to the monks of Pluscarden their In 2017, once again the Statue was
processional Statue of Our Lady. used in a May Procession with the
Photographs taken in 1952 show how Catholic children of Elgin. Sixty
this Statue was used each year in the five years separate the two groups of
month of May in procession with the photographs, but the Faith and the
Catholic children of Elgin. The Statue devotion are the same, thank God!
then found a home in the Infirmary So the Dominican Sister asked for a
at Pluscarden Abbey and was used Statue, but got two, and the Pluscarden
each year at the annual Diocesan monks were very happy that they were
Pilgrimage to the Abbey. able to be a link in that chain!

Then in early May 2017, one of the
Nashville Dominican Sisters now at Greyfriars
Convent looked to heaven and said, Blessed
Mother, please send me a beautiful, portable,
free statue of you today which I can use with the
children at St. Sylvester’s School when I go to say
the Rosary with them.

As by chance, that very afternoon one of the
May Procession 1952
monks of Pluscarden unexpectedly arrived at the M a y P r oc ession 1952
Convent to ask if the Dominican Sisters would
like to host the large Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady
of Fatima, which was about to tour the country.
Yes, they would, and will, was the answer! In the
course of that conversation, the Sisters explained
their need for a smaller, portable Statue, and so
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it was that Pluscarden Abbey officially gave the May Procession 2017