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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

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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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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