Come and See Weekends 2025 at Holy Cross Abbey


Friday 30th May to Monday 2nd June

Friday 8th to Monday 11th August


Any enquiries and registration,
please email us at
comeandseehca@gmail.com




Welcome to
Holy Cross Abbey Whitland

Holy Cross Abbey is set on the side of a hill overlooking a broad valley with the Preseli Hills as a backdrop beyond. It is a place of peace and great natural beauty and provides a perfect environment for a monastic life of prayer and praise: a place of rest and refreshment for those who visit us. We are about 5 hours from London, 2 hours from Cardiff, by road or rail, but a million miles away if you compare the bustle of capital city with the gentle landscape of Pembrokeshire in West Wales.

Please Pray for Peace

Almighty father,
You are the Lord of history, and we place in your hands the distress of our times.

Do not allow war cries and threats to triumph,
but enlighten us that we may recognise the human family across the world as one family.

Welcome those who have died,
comfort those who mourn,
be with refugees and those driven from their homes,
heal the wounds of those injured in body and soul
and be close to all who seek to aid them.

Send your Holy Spirit over the earth,
the Spirit who defeats division,
who overcomes war.

Now, Lord, please come to our aid,
guide us into the way of peace, trusting always in
Your Word, Our Lord Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns for ever and ever,
Amen.

Mass Times

Third Sunday of Lent 23rd March
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

The Annunciation of the Lord Tuesday 25th March
Fr Ramesh Mass 10am***

Fourth Sunday of Lent 30th March
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am

May God bless us all.

Prayer Requests

Weekly Thought

“The angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee called Nazareth”.
Art thou surprised, my brother, to see so small a town so highly honoured as to receive an envoy,
and so noble an envoy, from so great a King?
But know that in that little town is concealed an immense treasure -
concealed, I say but only concealed from men, not also from God.
What is Mary but the treasury of God?
Yes, and wherever she is, there is His heart also.
His eyes are always upon her, and He never ceases to “regard the humility of His handmaid”.
It will be allowed, I suppose, that the Only-Begotten of God the Father knows heaven.
And if He knows heaven, He must likewise know Nazareth.
How can He help knowing His inheritance?
For He has inherited Nazareth from His Mother,
as heaven from His Father:
hence He testifies of Himself that He is both the Son and the Lord of David.

St. Bernard’s Sermons for the Seasons & Principal Festivals of the Year, Vol. III, Third Sermon for the Feast of the Annunciation, Pages 167 - 168