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Faith Formation in a Synodal Style Part 4 in the series "What is Synodality?"

Debbie Stollery

Jun 14, 20246 min read

Faith Formation in a Synodal Style Part 4 in the series "What is Synodality?"

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

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How do I recognize synodal leadership? Part 3 in a series

Debbie Stollery

Jun 7, 20245 min read

How do I recognize synodal leadership? Part 3 in a series

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.

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How do I recognize synodality? Part 2 in a series

Debbie Stollery

May 31, 20245 min read

How do I recognize synodality? Part 2 in a series

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

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How do I recognize synodality? (Part 1 in a series)

Debbie Stollery

May 24, 20244 min read

How do I recognize synodality? (Part 1 in a series)

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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Debbie Stollery

May 17, 20243 min read

There's a kind of hush...

Photo by Graddes/Unsplash It's Friday May 17th...and we've been praying together for 7 evenings. It's not too late to join us tonight at...

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pentecostvigilproj

May 10, 20242 min read

Huddled in trepidation and wonder

Image from Jimbadical via Google Images It's Friday, May 10th and this evening at 7:30PM EDT we begin our Pentecost Vigil Novena. Please...

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pentecostvigilproj

May 3, 20242 min read

A Mighty Rushing Wind

Photo Boanca Suri/ Unsplash There's little that can instantly make me smile. But a picture like the one above, where the dog is clearly...

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Debbie Stollery

Apr 26, 20243 min read

Care to Connect?

I had another wonderful experience of connection through a worldwide Conversation in the Spirit this past week!

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Debbie Stollery

Apr 19, 20243 min read

The In-Between Time

Here's the ways we build synodal muscles in this in-between time!

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pentecostvigilproj

Apr 12, 20242 min read

Choose Now...Really!

It's Spring fundraising season and, like you, I'm getting bombarded by so MANY worthy causes and a few that are not on my passion list. ...

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Debbie Stollery

Apr 5, 20242 min read

Buy the Why!

Thought leader Simon Sinek says that people buy your why...not your what. Not heard of him? Listen to his internationally famous TED...

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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 19, 20243 min read

Synodality: Fluff or Foundation?

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

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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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Principles of Synodal Leadership: Moving into a Preferred Future

pentecostvigilproj

Jan 9, 20243 min read

Principles of Synodal Leadership: Moving into a Preferred Future

Pope Francis states that the synodal process is not an isolated event, rather it heralds a new way of being Church: "Synodality is a...

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pentecostvigilproj

Nov 4, 20236 min read

Harmony: A Gift of the Spirit

Google Images Boston Community Choir I'm coming to appreciate a new image of the Holy Spirit: conductor. No, not the kind on a train;...

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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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