Synod Journey Blog

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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. ...

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

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...

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