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 26th October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 27th October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 28th October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 29th October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 30th October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 31st October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 1st November - All Saints - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
To live Christ's life, then, to be moved by the Spirit of God,
means a constant dying and rising,
a constant Passover, in union with Christ.
It means a constant leaving behind of the old self and its old way of life
in order to live by the Spirit
and share the life of God.
It is a constant transformation,
through constant conversion, constant repentance.
Macrina Sitzia OSB, The Unfolding of Your Word Gives Light, page 27