Come and See Weekends 2025 at Holy Cross Abbey


Friday 30th May to Monday 2nd June

Friday 8th to Monday 11th August


Any enquiries and registration,
please email us at
comeandseehca@gmail.com




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

Fifth Sunday of Easter 18th May
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

Monday 19th May
Dom Jan Rossey Mass 7am***

Wednesday 21st May
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

Friday 23rd May
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

Sixth Sunday of Easter 25th May
Fr Elliot Hanson Mass 9am

*** Days not mentioned above
Eucharistic Service 8am

May God bless us all.

Prayer Requests

Weekly Thought

It was asked of Syncletica of blessed memory if to have nothing is a perfect good.
And she said, “It is a great good for those who are able.
For those who can endure it endure suffering in the flesh, but they have quiet of soul.
Even as stout garments trodden underfoot and turned over in the washing are made clean and white,
so is a strong soul made steadfast by voluntary poverty.”

The Desert Fathers, Translations from the Latin with an Introduction by Helen Waddell, Page 99