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 13th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Tuesday 14th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 15th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 16th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 17th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 18th July - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 19th July - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
Before the passion thou didst ask for the chalice to be removed,
but now in thine exhaustion thou sayest, ‘I thirst,’
thus commending thy great love to us.
It was as if thou hadst said,
‘Although on account of sensitiveness of my humanity I sought to refuse the suffering
because it was so great,
my love for you, O man, overcame me…’
St Bonaventure, The Mystical Vine, Fleur de Lys Series, page 43