A Celtic Journey with St. John of the Cross
We would like to share with you two beautiful musical reflections in honour of Our Lady and St John of the Cross recorded by Kerrie O’Connor and friends in our Chapel. We vacated the Chapel one afternoon while they did all the hard work!! The first one is available on youtube and the second will be available for the feast of St John of the Cross on 14th December. We hope you will enjoy. https://youtu.be/R2YGDeZ0haE
Prayer & Reflection
for Women
From time to time we host days of prayer and reflection for women interested in exploring a vocation to Religious life. For further information please contact us at: carmel@roebuckcarmel.com
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Sunday Reflection
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica 2025
Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9,
12 1 Cor 3:9-11,
16-17 John 2:13-22
Our celebration of the Liturgy today is honouring the Cathedral Church of Pope Leo, the Bishop of Rome. The Cathedral Church of any diocese is special: it is the chair of the bishop, the mother church of the diocese and the centre of all major diocesan liturgies. The Cathedral Church of the diocese of Rome is regarded as the mother and head church of all the churches of the City and the World. As Saint Ignatius of Antioch said this church “presides over the whole assembly of charity”. So, in a sense, it is more than just a building!
From the very beginning the human race has tried to identify with where God lives. In Genesis we have the image of God walking in the Garden of Paradise in close proximity to creation and the human race. Temples were made by human hands and were the spaces where the Patriarchs discovered the Presence of God. Moses spoke with God in a tent in the midst of the wild desert. Later it was considered that God took up a dwelling in the Temple in Jerusalem and the ‘line of David’ then took up the guardianship of the ‘house of God’.
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