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 November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 17th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 18th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 19th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 20th November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 21st November - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 22nd November - Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
Gertrude lived the monastic life from her deepest being;
There was no formalism in her…
She prays: ‘Come down, O Love most true,
unite me intimately unto you...
O Beloved of my heart...
that henceforth I may live for you alone...
Come, mould my heart after your own heart that
I may deserve to be entirely pleasing unto you in my monastic observance’.
Lillian Thomas Shank, St Gertrude, A Monastic Woman, in Peace Weavers - Medieval Religious Women Volume Two, Page 249