Synod Journey Blog

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

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!

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

There's something "off" in my understanding and experience of Lay Ecclesial Ministry.

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

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...

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...

Welcome guest blogger and PVP Leadership Team member Karen Jennings! Karen's relatively new to our Team and brings to us her many...

"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...

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 final blog in this series intended to provide language and logic for why synodality is the way forward for the Church in the...

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

The Pentecost Vigil Project welcomes Adam Joseph, graduate of the Catholic University of America Class of 2023. He majored in politics...

There's nothing quite like the pain of hosting a party, or any event for that matter, inviting lots of people and few show up. It's...

I'm so pleased to introduce our next pair of guest bloggers, Dennis and Loretta Beeman of Richmond, VA! They are both PVP Leadership...

We are delighted to wecome our fourth guest blogger, Michael Centore. Michael is a new friend of the Pentecost Vigil Project and...

We are delighted to welcome our second guest blogger, Marti R. Jewell. Marti generously helped us get PVP off the ground and remains a...

Preface: Fellow travelers, this is the last blog in the series on #synodality and listening. But it's not the last word on this...