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
Monday 12th January - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 13th January - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 14th January - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 15th January - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 16th January - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 17th January - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 18th January Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
…Behold the true Jordan, that is the descent of the humble,
in which we find that we may be devoutly be-baptized.
All that is required is that
we should not be reluctant to go down day by day more deeply,
be submerged more completely,
and be wholly buried together with Christ.
Let us give him thanks, whose humility both consecrated the form of baptism today
for those who believe and reserved an equivalent grace,
for those who repent:
to him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Guerric of Igny, Liturgical Sermons, Book I, The Fourth Sermon for the Epiphany, Page 98