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 27th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 28th July - The Dedication of Abbey Church - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 29th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 30th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 31st July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 1st August - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 2nd August - 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
“And if I shall go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again, and will take you to Myself;
that where I am you also may be.”
Dwell on the thought of this joy.
To be with Jesus is to be in light, in peace, in love, and in heaven.
This will be for ever.
And that we may share this bliss,
Jesus sends you trials; they have no other end.
Blush for your weakness in complaining of them.
London and Leamington Art and Book Company, Short Meditation according to the Method of St Ignatius, Vol. I, Page 286