Author Topic: The burial place of the residents of the Good Shepherd Convent (Read 420 times)

John Grace · « **on:** December 31, 2016, 06:16:03 AM »

This is the burial place of the residents of the Good Shepherd Convent in Limerick. The women are buried in Mount St. Lawrence Cemetery.

John Grace · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2016, 06:18:51 AM »

Another photo.

John Grace · « **Reply #2 on:** December 31, 2016, 06:21:55 AM »

Another photo. They were taken yesterday.

John Grace · « **Reply #3 on:** December 31, 2016, 06:38:06 AM »

The Good Shepherd Convent is now an art and design college. The laundry the women and religious sisters worked in is now a commercial business. It is still a laundry. The Good Shepherd sisters sold the convent to an art college in the 1990s.

The sisters live in a smaller house a short distance away. They and the Limerick Diocese provide a day centre for elderly people.

I am open to being corrected but some elderly women remain in the care of the Good Shepherd Sisters.

There was a time when the Good Shepherds had hundreds of sisters in their convent in Limerick. From the convent they operated a school, orphanage, a laundry. Now the order is declining. Have they even a hundred sisters in Ireland?

They still seem to engage in rescue work in Cork and Dublin. The 'Magdalene Laundries' are used against them.

An example of an order that was flourishing but like others seem to have moved away from the faith.

AMDGJMJ · « **Reply #4 on:** December 31, 2016, 08:24:57 AM »

Ah... So sad... The effects of Vatican II...

May God bring about the Restoration sooner rather than later and restore the Faith throughout the face of the earth!