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 Liam Bradley Mass 9am
Tuesday 15th October
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 8am
Thursday 17th & Friday 18th October
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 8am
Sunday 20th October
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 9am
*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am
May God bless us all.
Weekly Thought
In the “now” of each day and moment we will never lack opportunity to live the “Yes, Amen”
which was the love-induced response of our prayer;
in this way prayer and action find their integrity.
Without such recognition and response we run the risk of illusion.
Of course we will often fail, in the struggle to be faithful to the desire to say our “Yes.”
But the sincerity of our desire is more meaningful in God’s view than its accomplishment,
and our experience of weakness can often teach us much more about our radical dependency upon God
than our apparent and often secretly self-gratifying “successes.”
Thelma Hall R.C., Too Deep for Words - Rediscovering Lectio Divina, page 33