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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

The Communion of Saints 2025

Souls of the Faithful Departed

Celebrating All Saints and the Holy Souls

Each year we celebrate these two Feasts separately and rightly so, giving importance to our relationship with God, with our sisters and brothers who have died and those who are already enjoying the eternal presence of God in Heaven. With them we are all members of the Communion of Saints. This Communion of Saints is the Spiritual union of all who have been redeemed by Christ both living and dead. We proclaim our belief in this doctrine each time we recite the Apostles Creed.

Believers share spiritual goods, like Faith and the Sacraments, while the Faithful in heaven and on earth can intercede for each other. Formerly we used divide the ‘Communion of Saints’, or the ‘Church’, into three categories;

The Church militant (that is all of us, living saints struggling with life):
The Church Triumphant (the Saints in Heaven):
The Church suffering (those who have died and not yet reached Heaven).

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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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