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 2nd November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 3rd November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 4th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 5th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 6th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 7th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 8th November - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
Jesus “seeing the multitudes went up into a mountain,”
seeing them, that is, with a look of compassion,
“because they were as wandering sheep, not having a shepherd”.
But what means it, brethren, that before He began to teach
He ascended the mountain? Does He not by this very action teach us that
preachers of the Gospel ought to tend by the desires of the heart
and by a holy conversation to the things above,
and to scale the heights of virtue?
St. Bernard’s Sermons for the Seasons & Principal Festivals of the Year, Vol. III, First Sermon for the Feast of All Saints, page 336