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
Easter Vigil 5th April - Paschal Vigil - Fr Carlito Reyes Mass 3.30am
Easter Sunday 5th April - The Resurrection of the Lord - Fr Carlito Day Mass 9am
Monday 6th April - Easter Octave - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 7th April - Easter Octave - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 8th April - Easter Octave - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 9th April - Easter Octave - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 10th April - Easter Octave - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 11th April - Easter Octave - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 12th April - 2nd Sunday of Easter - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
The Lord, on the eve of his passion,
took care to invest His followers with a title to His grace,
so that a visible sign might become the channel for the communication of invisible grace to our souls.
This indeed is the end for which all the sacraments have been instituted;
this is the purpose of the Eucharistic Communion,
of the washing of the feet,
and of holy baptism, the first of the sacraments of Christ,
in which “we have been planted together in the likeness of his death”,
and which, in its triple immersion,
bears a resemblance to that triduum which we are now celebrating.
St. Bernard’s Sermons for the Seasons & Principal Festivals of the Year, Vol. II, Sermon for Holy Thursday, pages 155 to 156