Synod Journey Blog

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!

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.

Empowering Lay Ecclesial Ministers to be co-responsible for the unleashing of synodality is a concrete, do-able step.

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

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

Which pathways will you choose as you begin the shift to a more synodal Church? The IL has 4 to choose from.

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!

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!

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!

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

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

Every document that's come from the Synod has highlighted the need for formation in order for synodality to take root.

Our leaders, ordained and lay, need to know what synodal leadership looks like. And we need to know as well, so we can support it.

We're hearing the word synodal/synodality used but we still don't know what it means.

This begins another series of blogs in which we share what we are discovering about how to recognize synodality. We expect there will be...

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