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Debbie Stollery

Aug 22, 20244 min read

On Family Reunions and the Synod

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

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Debbie Stollery

Aug 16, 20245 min read

A Call to Conversion

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

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Debbie Stollery

Aug 9, 20245 min read

Re-Thinking Baptism's Importance

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!

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Debbie Stollery

Aug 2, 20247 min read

Let us create them in our image

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

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Discernment: A spiritual practice for a synodal Church

Debbie Stollery

Jul 25, 20247 min read

Discernment: A spiritual practice for a synodal Church

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

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The Holy Spirit at work in the Eucharist: Key to a Synodal Church

Debbie Stollery

Jul 18, 20246 min read

The Holy Spirit at work in the Eucharist: Key to a Synodal Church

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Debbie Stollery

Jul 11, 20245 min read

Beauty, the Spirit and Synodality

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!

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Listening to the Holy Spirit: A synodal spiritual practice

Debbie Stollery

Jul 5, 20246 min read

Listening to the Holy Spirit: A synodal spiritual practice

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

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Debbie Stollery

Jun 27, 20245 min read

Synodality as a Spiritual Practice

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

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Debbie Stollery

Mar 26, 20242 min read

Happy Holy Week!

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...

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Debbie Stollery

Mar 22, 20243 min read

Choose Now!

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...

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Debbie Stollery

Mar 7, 20244 min read

Participation means Preparation

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...

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pentecostvigilproj

Jan 16, 20244 min read

Keeping One Another's Silence

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

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Synod on Synodality: Dare we hope? Asked by a hopeful skeptic!

pentecostvigilproj

Oct 11, 20233 min read

Synod on Synodality: Dare we hope? Asked by a hopeful skeptic!

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...

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We've been trying to build interest in the Synod in our parish

pentecostvigilproj

Oct 6, 20233 min read

We've been trying to build interest in the Synod in our parish

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...

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It's GO! time.... the Synod on Synodality is beginning

pentecostvigilproj

Oct 1, 20232 min read

It's GO! time.... the Synod on Synodality is beginning

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...

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Let's get set ... for the Synod on Synodality!

pentecostvigilproj

Sep 27, 20233 min read

Let's get set ... for the Synod on Synodality!

Do you remember when you were a kid, and the tug of war was about to begin? There'd be someone, usually an adult, calling out to us,...

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Ready...Set...Go! First step? Get Ready!

pentecostvigilproj

Sep 21, 20234 min read

Ready...Set...Go! First step? Get Ready!

"The ongoing synodal process is not only the most important moment in the life of the Catholic Church since Vatican II. It's also the...

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Synodal Faith: Not for the faint or fearful

pentecostvigilproj

Sep 14, 20233 min read

Synodal Faith: Not for the faint or fearful

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." — Saint Augustine Here's what I do not...

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Why Synodality? Because Eucharist is powerful, but not alone!

pentecostvigilproj

Jul 18, 20235 min read

Why Synodality? Because Eucharist is powerful, but not alone!

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

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