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We need to experience synodality to truly understand it, just as we need to experience love to understand it.Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops gather for morning prayer October 27, 2023, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the synod on synodality, which will have its second session this October.
This was followed by further consultations to discover “how to be a synodal Church in mission.” The objective of the consultation was “to identify the paths we can follow and the tools we might adopt in our different contexts and circumstances in order to enhance the unique contribution of each baptised person and of each Church in the one mission of proclaiming the Risen Lord and His Gospel to the world today.
As a result, the instrumentum laboris presents the theological foundations of the vision of a missionary synodal Church promoted by Pope Francis. A synodal Church also calls for a renewal of liturgical and sacramental life “starting with liturgical celebrations that are beautiful, dignified, accessible, fully participative, well-inculturated and capable of nourishing the impulse towards mission.”
i. from the perspective of Relationships — with the Lord, between brothers and sisters and between Churches — which sustain the vitality of the Church in ways more profound than the merely structural;iii. from the perspective of the places that are the tangible contexts for our embodied relationships, marked by their variety, plurality and interconnection, and rooted in the foundation of the profession of faith, resisting human temptations to abstract universalism.
The document encourages formalising the ministry of catechists, which has been so successful in Africa, where there are few deacons. It also proposes a new “ministry of listening and accompaniment.” The document sees the exercise of authority as “a moderating force in the common search for what the Spirit requires, as a ministry at the service of the unity of the People of God.” But this also requires transparency, accountability and even a process for evaluating the use of authority in the Church. The working paper acknowledges that “the lack of transparency and accountability fuels clericalism.
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