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
Fr Simon Peter OCSO Mass 9am
Monday 20th, Tuesday 21st,
Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd,
Friday 24th & Saturday 25th January
Fr Simon Peter OCSO Mass 8am
Ss Robert, Alberic and Stephen
Sunday 26th January
Fr Simon Peter OCSO Mass 9am
*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am
May God bless us all.
Weekly Thought
His [Aelred’s] prayer was salted with wisdom.
He savored nothing that was bitter and tasted nothing that was savorless,
but drinking with joy old wine and new, refused all that was bad.
For, so he would say, in prayer there should be no thought of flies, winged beasts, beasts of the earth, people.
Let God, he said, be there in the midst, and no other.
Only two meet together in prayer, the person and God himself.
Walter Daniel, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, Cistercian Fathers Series number 57, page 104