Gallen Priory
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Daily mass is celebrated in our chapel which is open to everybody. Sisters are available to help the disabled where necessery. They also distribute Holy Communion in the chapel and in the Nursing Home.
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Every evening a Sister recites the Rosary with around approximately twenty residents.
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At removals Fr.O'Neill officiates. Sisters welcome relatives of the deceased, pray the Rosary and, on occasion, offer refreshments.
Sisters share responsibilty for receiving visitors tot the convent. Many friends still love to come and chat with the Sisters over a cup of tea. They often refer to the peaceful atmosphere of the house and the grounds. |
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A few Sisters attain the charismatic prayer group in the parish of Ferbane and spend an hour in the adoration Chapel once a week. Other sisters visit parishioners in their homes and a former missionary Sister has contact with pupils in seven schools in the area. Her aim is to promote vocations and to encourage missionary activitie.
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Gallen priory and St.Joseph's Ferbane have a vibrant group of associates who study the spirituality of the Congregation, and are always ready to work for worthy causes. |
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The Apostolic Workers in Ferbane are a tremendous support to our missions world wide. |
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A new venture in the process of being se up in the Parish is the bereavement ministry. One of our sisters has been asked to train members who will eventually take responsibility for this much needed apostolate. |
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Sisters in Gallen Priory live in the historical building where over 1.000 sisters prepared for religious life between 1922 - 1990. Most of them would have travelled all over the world as missionaries. |
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At present the community of 14 sisters gather daily in the convent chapel for the celebration of the eucharist and the divine office, and each evening pray for an hour before the Blessed Sacrament. |
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On Wednesdays their specials intention is promotion of vocations to the religious life. In this community of retired sisters it is edifying to see how caring and helpful they are to one another.
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After many years on the mission where they were happy to serve, though somethimes lonely, these sisters now prepare to meet their Lord by trying to be more and more contemplative. Their great wish is an increase in vocations to the religious life so that the good work begun by them will continue. They also ardently desire the canonization of their Foundress, Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey. |
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Mount Sackville Community
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Mt. Sackville Community is primarily a retirement home with a nursing home facility for sisters in need of care, not only within the community but also for returned Irish Cluny missionaries. Most active sisters, few in number in the community, are involved in supporting the work of the Nursing home as nurses and in support services. Our ministries outside the community are limited, however, a few sisters are involved in Parish Ministry and in Mt. Sackville Primary and Secondary Schools as well as in an Associate Programme. As a retired community we see ourselves as having three very important ministries which fortunately our age does not hinder us participating in, rather they energise us as we grow older! We are happy then to establish ourselves as; |
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Cluny House
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The community in Rathmines has been a house for returning Missionaries and Overseas Sisters studying in Ireland. But when the community in Templeogue was closed and the house in Rathmines was bought from the African Province, a new community was opened. |
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Our community are involved in parish work and visiting families.
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Saint Joseph's Convent, Ferbane
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St. Joseph's Convent Ferbane was founded on 12th May 1896 at the invitation of the then Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnois Most Rev Joseph Hoare. |
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From that date we have been involved in education at Primary and Secondary levels up to the present day. |
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In addition to our school ministry we have journeyed with the people of Ferbane over the years, sharing their joys and sorrows, their moments of life and death and participating fully in the life of the parish. Today we continue to be involved in all parish associations. |
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The spiritual life of the parish is enriched by our prayer, our witness and our active participation in all parish liturgies. This includes preparing ministers of the Word, taking Communion to the sick and housebound, Adoration in the Blessed Sacrament chapel in the Parish,and home and hospital visitation.
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As a community we come together for Morning Prayer and each evening we assemble for Evening Prayer and Mass.
Our mealtimes afford us an opportunity for sharing and encouraging and affirming one another in our various ministries.
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The many people who drop in are always warmly welcomed and enjoy a chat over a cup of tea. |
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In recent years we have developed a new outreach to the immigrants now living in Ferbane. We befriend and help them in various ways, including the teaching of english.
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In 2001 we established a group of Associates in cooperation with the Gallen Priory Community. The meetings are held monthly under the leadership of a sister from each Community.
The people of Ferbane have never failed to show their appreciation and gratitude to us and to affirm us in every way.
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