After the Mass, he will pray over each person who wants to be prayed over.

Fr. Barry, a charismatic priest from San Bernardino, CA, is best known for his healing ministries, especially through Retreats, Healing Masses, Healing The Family Tree, and Spiritual Direction. He feels a special call to the inner healing of the person.

Fr. Barry was born in 1939 and raised in Cork, Ireland. He graduated from the Catholic University of America and was ordained on June 14, 1964, as a member of the congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He has served as the provincial for his congregation’s western province in the USA, at which time he was granted the Pro Pontifice et Ecclesia Award by Pope John Paul II. Fr. Barry is the former director of the San Bernardino Diocese Evangelization Ministries.

Fr. Barry has been serving the poor in San Bernardino, which is the second poorest area in the US, for many years.  In 1987, he founded Mary’s Mercy Center, and the “Mary’s Table,” a ministry that feeds the poor and homeless.  In 1995, he opened a home for single and unwed mothers called “Veronica’s Home of Mercy” which was originally meant to be a drug and alcohol rehab. Seeing the connection between the homeless men and the crime rate in the area, started in 2012, Fr. Barry, with total abandonment to God’s providence, worked tirelessly towards building from scratch the new “Mary’s Village”which was officially opened in 2020. It is not only a home for the homeless men but also it helps its residents to reestablish themselves in the society through the various services and programs that it provides.