Two Irish vault names have received public donations of more than € 77,000 ($ 93,300) to develop a new home after a court ordered them to leave West Cork for attending the Dail which violated coronavirus guidelines.
Mother Irene Gibson, who is part of the Carmelite Sisters of the Holy Face of Jesus Group, and her colleague, Sister Anne Marie, from New Zealand, were ordered to leave their gathering after attending the religious event in Dublin last December. has. The Dail, based in the Irish capital, is the Irish lower house of the Oireachtas, which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Irish legislature. The Dail consists of 160 members.
An online video showed the expulsion and a mist in the capital’s Herbert Park that followed. The event was held on 8 December, a time when travel in Ireland was prohibited unless deemed necessary – for example for medical care or to buy groceries. Although the government at the time limited outdoor gatherings to 15 people, about 70 turn up for exorcism, the Irish examiner report.
After mother Irene and sister Anne Marie were spotted at the event that promised to remove evil spirits from Leister House in Dublin, they were told to leave their compound in Corran South near the town of Leap by June 2021. The former garden center was purchased in 2016. and without planning permission, Mother Gibson developed a two-story oratorio and seven wooden pods or barns for the two nuns to live in. In 2019, she was convicted of violating planning regulations. After their safe house was demolished by the Cork County Council, the two women now live in two garden houses, 10x8ft long, according to their GoFundMe page.
The “Carmelite nuns urgently need help!” GoFundMe page was launched late last year and wants to raise € 85,000 for the relocation of women to a new complex – as of Monday morning it has raised € 77,830.
The page contains a video call from the two women, which was first shared in January 2021. Mother Irene says in it: “We know that God brings good out of evil and that he is always with us.
“And we are greatly encouraged by the fact that you are also with us to support us spiritually, morally and financially.”
Sister Anne Marie adds, “Jesus has great things in store for us.”
“We urgently need money to buy suitable property so that we can continue our contemplative life of prayer in the silence of solitude and in the community for you, your family and all nations. Please send us what you can. God bless and reward u, ‘the nuns added on their GoFundMe page.
Mother Irene was contacted by Newsweek for comment.
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