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

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

Wednesday 2nd April
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

Friday 4th April
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

Fifth Sunday of Lent 6th April
Mgr Francis Jamieson Mass 9am

*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am

May God bless us all.

Prayer Requests

Weekly Thought

The community, as formative, is the source of behavior requirements.
It is important to articulate the role of behavior (animalis or body person)
in the community’s life and in the individual’s life
as an aid that helps integrating inner life
into a single thrust (affectus) of charity towards wisdom.
The inner force of love, shaping personal relationships,
makes possible authentic intimacy with one another.
Intimacy here is understood to be genuinely knowing another person,
a mutual knowledge that begets appropriate love and concern.

Thomas X. Davis, OCSO, Cistercian Communio, in Cistercian Studies Quarterly Vol 29.3,1994, Page 308