When there is no vision the people perish! (Prov 29:18)

Sr Maureen McBride RNDM, Congregational Leader, Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions

Maureen McBride RNDM has spent the past eleven years as Congregational Leader of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, an International Missionary Congregation, where 35% of the members are under the age of 40. Drawing on her own mission experience in the Southern Philippines, and in the 25 countries where her Sisters are present, Maureen will explore the threefold role of leadership as: a) prophecy and visioning, the invitation to be attentive to “Whisperings of Grace”; b) the pastoral care of members and partners in mission, and the challenges of living and working in extraordinarily diverse intercultural communities; c) striving for best practice in administration and stewardship of resources. Maureen will offer vignettes of biblical women as paradigms of leadership in mission today. She will reflect on some of the challenges of leadership in a diverse multicultural context.

Responder: Dr Therese D’Orsa, Conjoint Professor of the Broken Bay Institute and the University of Newcastle