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
Mgr Francis Jamieson Mass 9am
Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th &
Wednesday 11th September
Mgr Francis Jamieson Mass 8am
Thursday 12th, Friday 13th &
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Saturday 14th September
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 8am
Sunday 15th September
Fr Liam Bradley Mass 9am
*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am
May God bless us all.
Weekly Thought
In fact detachment is not a process of diminution but a process of liberation,
through which the real me is set free
from the layers and bands of material I have wrapped myself in for protection and security.
Charles Cummings, O.C.S.O., Spirituality and the Desert Experience, page 111