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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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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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