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

First Sunday of Advent 1st December
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 9am

Tuesday 3rd December
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 8am

Thursday 5th & Friday 6th December
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 8am

Second Sunday of Advent 8th December
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 9am

*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am

May God bless us all.

Weekly Thought

The Saviour, when He comes, “will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the Body of His glory,”
only on condition, however,
that He finds our hearts already reformed and made like to the humility of His own Heart.
Therefore has He said, “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of Heart.”

St. Bernard’s Sermons for the Seasons & Principal Festivals of the Year, Vol. I, page 35