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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

Corpus Christi 2025

Corpus Christi

Genesis 14:18-20

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Luke 9:11-17

We might wonder why, on this Feast of Corpus Christi, we don’t read the Gospel passage describing the Last Supper. This was the event at which Jesus instituted the Eucharist, the Sacrament of His Body and Blood. Saint Luke, who in every chapter of his gospel mentions food, or eating or table fellowship, really did have a theology of food and he does describe the event of the Last Supper in his gospel (Luke 22:14-22).Today’s Gospel is about food and bread and eating but the emphasis is at a more basic level and on a real human experience. In our 2nd Reading today Saint Paul refers to the Last Supper and reminds us of the Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ – ‘Every time we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim the death of the Lord Jesus’.

The Gospel today, the feeding of the 5000, recounts an event early in the ministry of Jesus: it pre-figures the celebration of the Last Supper and we recognise in it many of the familiar elements of the Last Supper.

Jesus ‘took the loaves … said the blessing … broke them … and handed them to his disciples to distribute them …’

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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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