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

Ss Peter and Paul Sunday 29th June
Canon Laurence Pelosi Mass 9am

Monday 30th June
Canon Laurence Pelosi Mass 8am

Sunday 6th July
Canon Laurence Pelosi Mass 9am

*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am

May God bless us all.

Prayer Requests

Weekly Thought

The commemoration of either of them [Peter and Paul] alone would suffice to fill the whole earth with exultation,
but the two are united in one and the same solemnity
to make the gladness still more abounding
and that they who so loved each other in life might not in death be parted.
Oh, how great was their power whilst they still lived upon earth,
to one of whom had been given “the keys of the kingdom of heaven”,
and to the other the mission to evangelise the nations …
But if such was their power on earth,
how much greater must we not suppose it to be now in heaven? …
Let us therefore beseech them to render propitious to us their Friend and our Judge,
Who is God above all things and blessed for evermore. Amen.

St. Bernard’s Sermons for the Seasons & Principal Festivals of the Year, Vol. III, Sermon for the Vigil of Ss. Peter and Paul, Pages 191 - 192