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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

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025

Loaf of Bread

Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23

Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11

Luke 12:13-21

The Gospels are often referred to as the ‘Good News’. Not many of us would be fully in agreement that today’s Gospel Reading is good news. It is one of the very challenging gospel passages that we, as Christians, must accept and face up to. I can think of some other passages which fall into this category: “Love one another as I have loved you”; “Love your enemies”; “Pray for those who hate you”; the rich man, the camel and the eye of the needle; “If you do not take up your cross, you cannot be my disciple”.

Today’s Gospel Reading requires us to stop and consider how great is our commitment to our Christian faith and its place in the world. Our contemporary world would hardly even consider this message today or even understand it! This is a message calling for equality, egalitarianism and sharing. It is to be proclaimed in a dog-eat-dog world where one-up-man-ship and greed are the norm.

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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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