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 24th August - Fr Aodhan Mass 8am
Tuesday 25th August - Fr Aodhan Mass 8am
Wednesday 26th August - Canon Barry English Mass 8am
Thursday 27th August - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Friday 28th August - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Saturday 29th August - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Sunday 30th August - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Canon Barry Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
The light of the living is the light of the immortals,
the light of the saints.
A person who is not in darkness pleases God
in the light of the living.
We may observe someone from the outside,
and all his or her possessions,
but no one knows what that person is really like;
only God knows.
Saint Augustine, Exposition of the Psalms, Volume 3, translation and notes by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., page 100