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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

2nd Sunday of Advent 2025

Saint John the Baptist 2025

Isaiah 11:1-10,

Romans 15: 4-9,

Matthew 3:1-12

In the Gospel Reading last Sunday, the 1st Sunday of Advent, we heard three times the phrase “when the Son of Man comes”. This is a call to watch out, to listen carefully and it may indeed lead us to be anxious and unsure wondering what will happen when the Son of Man comes. This certainly was the mood that the statement provoked in the people of Jerusalem and all of Judea and the whole Jordan district and drew them out into the wilderness to witness John the Baptist and hear his proclamation.

John the Baptist did not appear in the Temple, nor did he wear the ceremonial robes that might have been expected of one in his position. Perhaps their curiosity drew the people out to wilderness, the desert, and his eccentricity held their interest.

So often in the Gospels Jesus is seen teaching his disciples on a mountain or on high ground which is removed from the hustle and bustle of their everyday lives. John the Baptist preaches in the desert which is stark and empty and very different to what his audience was used to.

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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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