Synod Journey Blog

The Church is like an Oreo cookie: two firm pieces holding together that amazing middle, full of the Body of Christ, sweet nourishment!

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

Is there a connection between the synod's Final Document, the Pope's recent encyclical and the Jubilee Year of Hope? Here's what I see!

Let's spread the glitters of hope in this Jubilee Year of Hope, so that all the world can see God's Kingdom here and now!

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

If you love another, not only will you change, you will be ok with it because love makes it something do-able.

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!

If we're created in God's image and imbued with God's Spirit, what does that mean for how we are the Church?

What does God want? How are we supposed to figure that out? Discernment...a contemplative practice.

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

Beauty is one of the ways the Spirit calls us into communion with the Lord and one another. Read on to discover this amazing gift!

Listening to the Holy Spirit takes preparation. Read on to see what the delegates and documents tell us!

I'm a practical sort. I like to operationalize ideas...to figure out how to "do" something.

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...

It's the last Friday of Lent. Today's Scriptures introduce us to the notion of standing firm in what God wants, even when we don't...

Photograph Unsplash/Aaron Burden We have good news and not-so-good-news. First the really good news: We've re-done our website. It's...

“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...

It was a challenge, but it was worth it! We, my wife and I, recently planned and presented a program at our parish to raise awareness...

It's an odd time to be an American Catholic. While much of the world is praying, watching and waiting for the Holy Spirit's inspiration...