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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

A Celtic journey

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

2nd Sunday of Easter 2026

Doubting Thomas

Acts 2:42-47

1 Peter 1:3-9

John 20:19-31

The name ‘Doubting Thomas’ certainly caught on! And for the past two thousand years Thomas has been known for all the wrong reasons – or has he?

Thomas was a very serious man, even intense. When Jesus decided to go up to Jerusalem to face his fate, it was Thomas who suggested that he would go to die with him. At the time when Jesus was explaining his return to the Father and the used the wonderful analogy of ‘the way, the truth and the Life’ it was Thomas who asked the pertinent question; ‘we do not know where you are going, so, how can we know the way?’

Thomas had invested a great deal in the Lord and now. after Jesus had died, he was distraught and the ‘rumours’ and gossip about the Resurrection must have aggravated him greatly. Another report of a sighting was too much for him and dramatically he retorts that he needs concrete, physical proof.

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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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