Word: goonellabah
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That is about the easiest thing to imagine in the lives of the eight cloistered sisters of the Carmelite Monastery at Goonellabah, near Lismore, in northern New South Wales, who can be seen only through a grilled window in the reception area. It's into this modest room, watched over by old black-and-white photographs of St. Teresa of the Andes, that Sisters Bernadette, Veronica, Antoinette and Maria come in turn, each shedding a little more light on an existence which Sister Veronica herself can imagine outsiders wondering about: "I've been passing the monastery for five years. What...
That was what, in 1966, brought the sisters of Dulwich Hill to Goonellabah, to a subtropical hillside adjoining the Nightcap Range. "There seemed to be the need for places of prayer in Australia at that time," recalls Sister Bernadette, now the prioress, who has seen three sisters buried in the high-walled garden. Prayer is the air that they breathe. It's what brings them from their cells with the toll of the bell at 5:10 each morning, and what shapes their day, spent mainly in silence. There's morning prayer, private prayer, thanksgiving prayer, Vespers, and streams...
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