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 18th May - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 19th May - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 20th May - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 21st May - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 22nd May - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 23rd May - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Pentecost Sunday 24th May - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
Contemplation occurs in a non-verbal zone of the human spirit.
In so far as contemplative prayer has content
it does not translate easily into words and concepts;
only images or evocations can adumbrate its reality.
The Word is beyond words.
Contemplation brings us so close to God
that God ceases to be a clear object of consciousness.
We are drawn into the divine subjectivity
and have no language to convey the integrity of the experience.
Michael Casey OCSO, Truthful Living - Saint Benedict’s Teaching on Humility, Page 216