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 13th April - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 14th April - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 15th April - Fr Aodhan McDunphy OCSO Mass 8am
Thursday 16th April - Fr Aodhan Mass 8am
Friday 17th April - Fr Aodhan Mass 8am
Saturday 18th April - Fr Aodhan Mass 8am
Sunday 19th April - 3rd Sunday of Easter - Fr Aodhan Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
You know that when he came to them the doors were locked and he stood among them,
but they were startled and frightened and supposed they saw a spirit.
But when he breathed on them saying:
“Receive the Holy Spirit,”
and when later he sent from heaven the same Spirit with another gift,
these gifts were indeed undeniable proofs and testimonies of resurrection and life.
It is the Spirit who bears witness in the hearts and on the lips of the saints that
Christ is the truth, the true resurrection and the life.
Thus the Apostles who had previously doubted even after seeing his living body,
after tasting his life-giving Spirit with great power
gave testimony to his resurrection.
Guerric of Igny, Liturgical Sermons, Book 2, The First Sermon for Easter, Page 83