Sister Mary Teresa Barron, OLA, is among the Irish representatives at the second and final session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in the Vatican.
Sr Mary will join the former Bishop of Raphoe, Bishop Alan McGuckian, at the Synod on Synodality from 2 – 27 October.
Sr Mary is the President of the International Union of Superiors General and the Congregational Leader of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, a missionary congregation founded in Lyon, France
This summer, she was nominated by Pope Francis to be a member of a Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches.
Sr Mary is the daughter of Philomena and the late Jim Barron from Ballintra
Also in attendance at the October Synod will be Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick, Rev Professor Eamon Conway, a priest of the Archdiocese of Tuam, who will serve the Synod as an ‘Expert and Facilitator’ and Sister Patricia Murray IBVM, Executive Secretary of the International Union of Superiors General.
The assembly members will prepare for the second session of the Synod with a two-day spiritual retreat, which began yesterday and concludes with a penitential service in St. Peter’s Basilica on the evening of 1 October. The work of the second session will get underway after the opening Mass on the morning of October 2, with the final Mass scheduled for the morning of October 27.
The task of the second session is to complete the discernment begun at the first session and offer the result of this discernment to Pope Francis in a final document.
