Synod Journey Blog

Coffee and conversation about what breaks our hearts and fills our hearts about our Church is an act of hope!

Be a pilgrim of hope! Cast your net, have a cup of coffee and a conversation! Build the bonds between you.

We're in the implementation phase of the culture change to synodality...and there are soooo many questions!

The relationship between Lay Ecclesial Ministers and the Church is in need of conversion.

What exactly is Lay Ecclesial Ministry and what do we, as Church, need to do with it in light of synodality?

Geography, culture, leadership, technology: all of these influence our "place" and so, a single approach cannot be effective.

Communion is about relationships between more parties than you might think. How will we foster them?

Join in laying the foundations for the conversion to a synodal Church by first understanding the building blocks.

Ever try to share the story of a wonderful trip you took? It's rarely sequential or categorized. So it is with the #synodourney.

I caught synodality's vision this past weekend at our family reunion. Read on to see how!

Baptism matters! We die and rise to new life, a new Spirit within, a new way of living. But do we? Synodality is counting on it!

Photo Credit Deborah Stollery (c) 2024 Sacred Heart Catholic Church Tampa FL This is the fourth is a series of blogs on the...

There can be no synodality without an ecumenical dimension. What does that look like in my parish?

The most sacred days of our liturgical year are upon us. As I write this, Pat Clement, one of the co-founders of the Pentecost Vigil...

Photo Unsplash/Patrick Schneider It snowed here overnight. When I went to bed, there were ice pellets gathering on the coldest spots...

“To pray means to change,” Douglas V. Steere writes in his foreword to Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer. I would amend this to say...

It's Monday October 9th and I'm writing from a specatcular Jekyll Island, GA. Had no power on Saturday so I couldn't follow what was...

Have you ever participated in an organized group process where you were asked your opinion, but you doubted if what you said would make...

This is the second in a series of blogs on 'Why synodality?" Seems there are many current Church leaders, lay and ordained, and perhaps...

This begins a series of blogs on 'Why synodality?" Seems there are many current Church leaders, lay and ordained, and perhaps even more...