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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

3rd Sunday of Easter 2025

Peter do you love me

John 21:1-19

This Gospel story is very much about Peter. The disciples are still reeling and very much confused after all the events of the times. For Peter, his threefold denial of Jesus is still haunting him. He is trying to get back to normality – he goes fishing with his friends. When Jesus appears, Peter doesn’t recognise him. John, the one closest to Jesus points him out “It is the Lord”. There follows, what some call, Peter’s Confession or Reconciliation. His three “Yes, Lord”s are sincere and they do correspond to his three denials of the Lord.

In English language, when Jesus asks “Do you love me” and Peter answers “Yes Lord, I love you” it makes good sense. But in the original of the New Testament what Peter replies does not exactly respond to the question which Jesus asks. In his book “The Four Loves”, C S Lewis describes four words for love in the Greek language;

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The canonisation of Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

Those of you who joined us for the Holy Hour on 12th January to pray for peace and security for our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land will be interested to know that on Sunday 17th May “The Little Arab” Blessed Mariam Baouardy was canonized in Rome.

Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Baouardy was born Maria Baouardy in Abellin, a village in Upper Galilee, near Nazareth, in 1846 of Arab parents. She was baptized in the Melchite Greek Catholic Church. From early youth she experienced many sufferings together with extraordinary mystic phenomena. In France, she entered the Carmel of Pau. She was sent to India to found new Carmel’s, and then to Bethlehem, where she died in 1878. She was beatified by St John Paul II in 1983.

Links that may be of interest:

A YouTube Video made by the Carmelite Nuns in Bethlehem: http://bit.ly/1PeLxdK
Carmelite Sisters of Ireland: http://bit.ly/1FPkkMK
Carmelites Sisters in the Holy Land: http://bit.ly/1GrQEjA

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