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 6th July - Mass 11.15am***
Tuesday 7th July - Mass 8am
Wednesday 8th July - Mass 8am
Thursday 9th July - Mass 8am
Friday 10th July - to be arranged
Saturday 11th July - Our Holy Father St Benedict - Fr Carlito Reyes Mass 8am
Sunday 12th July - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
There is a spark of divine fire in us that causes us to look beyond the earthly sphere
for the fulfillment of our deepest yearnings.
Nothing in space and time can satisfy us fully and permanently.
Every desired gratification quickly loses intensity and fades,
and something else equally impermanent,
is sought to take its place.
As Teresa of Avila wrote,
“All things are changing; only God changeth never.”
Michael Casey, The Road to Eternal Life, page 56