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 14th December. We hope you will enjoy. https://youtu.be/R2YGDeZ0haE
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
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026
Feast of Saint Brigid of Kildare
Zephaniah 2:3, 3:12-13
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Matthew 5:1-12
The Scripture Readings for the Mass of the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time are very suitable for the Feast of St Brigid and present us with many lessons for our way of living the Christian life in the context of our world and our times.
In the first Reading, the prophet Zephaniah addresses the people of Israel after the Babylonian exile. This was a people who had believed that material wealth was the reward for those who were faithful and that those who did not prosper must have been blameworthy. After the exile Zephaniah prophesied that ‘the humble and lowly of the land’ will receive divine blessing and will ‘have no one to disturb them’. If you obey the law and are faithful ‘in your midst I will leave a humble and lowly people’.
Many centuries later we would see how those who obeyed the Law faithfully, like Elizabeth and Zechariah, Mary and Joseph and Simeon and Anna would not die ‘until their eyes had seen your salvation’ Today’s Gospel Reading, the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes, is the Lord’s own way of putting the same message to us. By living according to his charter we will be blessed if we are peacemakers, poor in spirit, merciful, gentle and pure in heart.
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