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 28th September - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 29th September - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 30th September - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 1st October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 2nd October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 3rd October - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 4th October - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
You did not hesitate, dear Mother,
to tell me one day that God was enlightening my soul
and that He was giving me even the experience of years.
O Mother! I am too little to have any vanity now,
I am too little to compose beautiful sentences
in order to have you believe that I have a lot of humility.
I prefer to agree very simply that
the Almighty has done great things in the soul of His divine Mother's child,
and the greatest thing is to have shown her her littleness, her impotence.
Story of a Soul, the Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux,
a New Translation from the Original Manuscripts by John Clarke, O.C.D.,
ICS Publications, Page 210