(L-R) Fr Gerry Comiskey, PP Drumlane, Co. Cavan, with Sr Beatrice Brady, Drumlane, and Jordan Mac Gabhann, a student for the priesthood in Kilmore Diocese. 
Sr Beatrice (Emma) Brady’s home parish of Drumlane, Co. Cavan, have praised the “courageous young woman” who professed her vows at the Co. Waterford Cistercian convent, July 11.
Fr Gerry Comiskey of Drumlane shared the parish’s congratulations and best wishes to Sr Beatrice, saying they were praying for her.
Fr Enda Murphy, who works for the Congregation for Divine Worship in the Vatican and whose parish neighbours Sr Beatrice’s home parish, said her profession brought “great joy”.
He hopes her example may encourage young men and women “to do something really radical with their lives”.
Sr Beatrice made her First Profession of Monastic Vows in St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, which commits her to “stability, conversion of life and obedience for one year”.
The community in Glencairn said they were “delighted” to welcome their newly professed member, who took the name of Beatrice after Blessed Beatrice, the Cistercian nun of Nazareth (1200-1268).
