HOLY CROSS ABBEY
- HOLY CROSS ABBEY
SA34 0QX WHITLAND, DYFED
Phone: 01994 240725
E-mail: Send messagewww.hcawhitland.co.uk
Short profile:
The Community earns its living making altar breads, used at the celebration of the Eucharist. Each member of the community has some involvement in this industry and the altar breads are dispatched all over the country and abroad.
We have a small monastic guest-house, where retreatants and those coming for a "quiet day" are welcomed.
We maintain flower gardens for guests and are expamding our market garden of fruit and vegetables for our own use and for sale. We also have free- range chickens.
We have extended our woodland, collaborating with the Forestry Commission in their Better Woodland Wales scheme, to ensure a sustainable fuel for our Bio Mass heating system and to enhance the natural beauty of our valley for generations to come. We are also experimenting with areas of meandowland and are re-introducing bee-keeping.
Detailed description:
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.
We belong to a world- wide Order of Cistercians, both men and women.
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