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 2nd February - The Presentation of the Lord - (no Tierce) Fr Carlito Procession and Mass 8am
Tuesday 3rd February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Wednesday 4th February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Thursday 5th February Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Friday 6th February Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Saturday 7th February - Fr Carlito Mass 8am
Sunday 8th February - 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr Carlito Mass 9am
Weekly Thought
For there was old age in the child at his mother's breast,
wisdom in the infant,
power in weakness,
the Word in flesh.
O infancy, O old age,
how splendidly you come together in the understanding and behavior of this child.
Nothing could be more innocent, yet nothing wiser,
nothing more delightful yet nothing more mature,
nothing meeker yet nothing more just.
Guerric of Igny, Liturgical Sermons, Book I, The Third Sermon for the Purification, Page 114