In his welcoming address on the first day of the retreat for those taking part in the General Assembly of the Synod, Cardinal Mario Grech highlighted the importance of prayer and entrustment to Mary. He urged participants to 'strip themselves of the 'clothing' of approaches and patterns that perhaps had meaning yesterday, but today have become a burden for the mission and jeopardize the credibility of the Church,'
In the first of two days of retreat before the formal opening of the General Assembly of the Synod , Cardinal Mario Grech invites participants to strip themselves of preconceived “approaches and schemes” and instead entrust Second Session to Mary , the model of listening.Vatican orders Apostolic Visitation of Priestly Fraternity of St.
“We strip ourselves of the ‘clothing’ of approaches and patterns that perhaps had meaning yesterday, but today have become a burden for the mission and jeopardize the credibility of the Church,” he explained. “We must be willing to strip ourselves, since listening is a radical action of stripping ourselves before the other and before God.”
The Mother of Jesus, the bishops say, “posits the true constitutive act of the Church; everything that has come subsequently – the apostolic ministry, the sacraments, the sending forth on mission in the world – presupposes this Marian foundation.”The Synod’s secretary general expressed his hope that the Synod Assembly that is being inaugurated will be that “good soil in which the Word of God can bear abundant fruit.
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