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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 14^thDecember. We hope you will enjoy. https://youtu.be/R2YGDeZ0haE

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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

1st Sunday of Advent 2025

Advent Wreath W1

Isaiah 2: 1-5

Romans 13:11-14

Matthew 24:37-44

This is the first Sunday of our New Liturgical Year and it must seem strange that the Gospel Reading is about the end of time. But really isn’t life and time considered a circle; we have come from God who created us and are living out our journey back to God. During Advent we have the opportunity to consider/contemplate the beginning of life and in a particular way the new life which the Son of God brought into the world.

During these 24 days of Advent we have the visual aid of the Advent wreath before us – it is circular, as an expression of the journey of life from God and back to God! It is Green, the colour of new life and it has 4 candles which increase the light for us as we journey towards celebrating when ‘The Son of Man comes’. The Gospel today seems strangely topical – did we not read descriptions like these in our newspapers only recently; floods hurtling down valleys killing hundreds, people disappearing while going about their daily chores, burglars rampaging and looting? These things might fill us with terror or, by now, do we take them as reminders of the unpredictability of life and how necessary it is to be ready for whatever comes.

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Sr. Breda McInerney (1935-2024)

Sr Brida

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Sr Breda McInerney.

Born on 1st February 1935 at Cooraclare, Co Clare. Breda joined the Nazareth Sisters after her secondary school years and taught in their schools in Australia until she decided to be a Carmelite. In 1985 Sr. Breda came to Ireland and joined Firhouse Carmel. In 2017 she transferred to Roebuck after the sad closure of Firhouse.

Sr Breda was always interested in people and their concerns and was very zealous in her prayer for all. We are confident that she will continue to bring our concerns to the Lord on our behalf and that she will intercede for us all.

Always interested in sport she was an avid follower of the GAA and was keenly interested in rugby.

After suffering for years with heart problems it finally gave up on her and she died peacefully and serenely in the Monastery aided by the wonderful care of our doctors and the hospice nurses.

May she rest in eternal peace.

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