Breaking the Great Silence
Posted by Sr Eleanor on October 21, 2008
I’m sorry – it’s been too long since I posted!
I have been away from Glencairn for a few weeks, serving as a secretary at the General Chapter of our Order. This meeting of all the abbots and abbesses of the Order which takes place every three years. This year it was held at a convention centre run by the Franciscans in Assisi.
The most important matter at the Chapter was the election of a new Abbot General, to be the head of the whole Order. On Sept. 8th, in a prayerful and peaceful atmosphere, the electors chose Dom Eamon Fitzgerald, abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey, right here beside us in Co. Waterford, to fulfil this role.
Dom Eamon leaves to reside at our General House in Rome next Sunday. Yesterday he visited us here in Glencairn. We celebrated with him and assured him of our prayerful support in his new ministry.
You can read more about the General Chapter here, and about Dom Eamon’s election here.
