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 9th March - Fr Carlito Mass 8.30am***
Tuesday 10th March - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 11th March - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 12th March - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 13th March - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 14th March - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 15th March - 4th Sunday of Lent - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
One of the old men send his disciple to draw water.
The well was a great distance away from their cell.
He forgot to take a rope,
and coming to the well he realised that he had not brought it.
After offering a prayer, he cried out, saying,
'Cistern, cistern,
my abbot said, “Fill the water jar.” '
Immediately the water came up,
and after the brother filled his jar,
the water went back down again to its place.
Columba Stewart OSB, The World of the Desert Fathers, page 3