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 31st August - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Tuesday 1st September - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Wednesday 2nd September - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Thursday 3rd September - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Friday 4th September - Canon Barry Mass 8am
Saturday 5th September - Fr Carlito Reyes Mass 8am
Sunday 6th September - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Mgr Francis Jamieson Mass 9am
Monday 7th September - Mgr Francis Mass 8am
Tuesday 8th September - Mgr Francis Mass 8am
Wednesday 9th September - Mgr Francis Mass 8am
Thursday 10th September - Mgr Francis Mass 8am
Friday 11th September - Mgr Francis Mass 8am
Saturday 12th September - Fr Carlito Reyes Mass 8am
Sunday 13th September - 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
Therefore the Groom's friend stands near the Groom and listens,
ready to obey in everything,
and rejoices greatly in everything because of the Groom's voice
however much he is saddened because of other factors in a great many circumstances.
For in fact the Groom's voice includes this as well.
The Groom himself sometimes grows angry and sad,
weeps and suffers pain,
yet he rejoices in all this because of him whose Word he is,
and he joyfully runs in the contest assigned to him.
Issac of Stella, Second Sermon for the Birth of John the Baptist, in Sermons on the Christian Year, Volume Two, Cistercian Publications, Page 148