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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

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2026

Feast of Saint Brigid of Kildare

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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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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