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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

Ascension Day 2025

Ascension of the Lord

Acts: 1:1-11

Ephesians 1:17-23

Luke 24:46-53

For the disciples, witnessing the event of the Ascension of the Lord, it was a time of mixed feelings. The Lord was departing from them which saddened them but He promised that they would receive the gift of the Holy Spirit who would empower them to carry on His mission to the world, which energised them and gave them hope. Saint Luke gives us two different accounts of this event.

In the Acts of the Apostles he says that Jesus ascended to the Father forty days after the Resurrection, forty days that were filled with joy and teaching and faith-filled moments with the Risen Lord. In his Gospel, Saint Luke says that Jesus ascended to Heaven on the same day as the Resurrection. That Jesus left so suddenly meant that the disciples felt even more the need of the Holy Spirit, the power from on High. They were acutely aware of their weakness and vulnerability and the power that the Lord promised was essential to their lives and the mission of the early Church.

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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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