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
Fr Carlito Reyes Mass 9am
Immaculate Conception of BVM Monday 8th,
Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th,
Thursday 11th, Friday 12th & Saturday 13th December
Mass 8am
Third Sunday of Advent 14th December
Fr Carlito Reyes Mass 9am
May God bless us all.
Weekly Thought
Humility of the will, or of the heart,
enables is to trample under foot the glory of the world;
but it is only to be learned from Him Who
“emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant,”
Who fled when the people desired to make Him King,
and Who freely offered Himself
when they wished to make Him suffer all kinds of ignominy and the shameful death of the cross.
St. Bernard’s Sermons for the Seasons & Principal Festivals of the Year, Vol. I, page 35