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 16th February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 17th February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 18th February - Ash Wednesday - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 19th February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 20th February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 21st February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 22nd February - 1st Sunday of Lent - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
I doubt whether there are many of us, if any,
who can look back on our monastic lives without some tinge of regret.
That should not be surprising.
The “treasure” which we were given, our monastic vocation,
is contained in “perishable earthenware”.
St Paul makes the point that matters:
“It must be God and not anything in ourselves,
that gives it its sovereign power” (2 Cor. 4:7).
If the regrets show us our limitations,
which we have lost through negligence
we shall retrieve through our sorrow.
One day we shall see Him as He is -
the hours spent in the choir
will have prepared us for the eternity we shall spend in our praising of Him,
and our works of love, done for Him and for His sons and daughters,
will have fashioned us for that moment of ecstatic love,
which is for the monk,
as for all who seek God, His eternal reward.
Basil Hume OSB, In Praise of Benedict A.D.480-1980, pages 28 to 29