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Synod Journey Blog
Our thoughts along the synod road.

Courage to Face the Opposition!
Empowering Lay Ecclesial Ministers to be co-responsible for the unleashing of synodality is a concrete, do-able step.
Jean Hawley
Nov 5, 20244 min read
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Something is Crooked...so Acknowledge the Discontent!
There's something "off" in my understanding and experience of Lay Ecclesial Ministry.
Jean Hawley
Oct 22, 20244 min read
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Your "Place" Matters
Geography, culture, leadership, technology: all of these influence our "place" and so, a single approach cannot be effective.
Debbie Stollery
Sep 26, 20246 min read
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HGTV and Synodality
Join in laying the foundations for the conversion to a synodal Church by first understanding the building blocks.
Debbie Stollery
Sep 5, 20244 min read
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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!
Debbie Stollery
Aug 9, 20245 min read
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Synodality as a Spiritual Practice
I'm a practical sort. I like to operationalize ideas...to figure out how to "do" something.
Debbie Stollery
Jun 27, 20245 min read
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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...
Debbie Stollery
Mar 26, 20242 min read
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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...
pentecostvigilproj
Jan 16, 20244 min read
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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...
pentecostvigilproj
Jan 9, 20243 min read
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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...
pentecostvigilproj
Oct 11, 20233 min read
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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...
pentecostvigilproj
Oct 6, 20233 min read
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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...
pentecostvigilproj
Oct 1, 20232 min read
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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,...
pentecostvigilproj
Sep 27, 20233 min read
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What is this excitement about the Synod?
Welcome guest blogger and PVP Leadership Team member Karen Jennings! Karen's relatively new to our Team and brings to us her many...
pentecostvigilproj
Sep 25, 20232 min read
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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...
pentecostvigilproj
Sep 21, 20234 min read
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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...
pentecostvigilproj
Sep 14, 20233 min read
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Guess What? They Listened!
Have you ever participated in an organized group process where you were asked your opinion, but you doubted if what you said would make...
pentecostvigilproj
Sep 5, 20232 min read
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Synodality's Benefits for the Clergy: Part 2
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...
pentecostvigilproj
Aug 18, 20236 min read
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Why Synodality Benefits the Clergy
This continues our 5-part series on "Why Synodality?" with the last two blogs in this series written specifically for clergy, and by...
pentecostvigilproj
Aug 10, 20236 min read
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Why Synodality? For the sake of the world...
This is the second in a series of blogs on 'Why synodality?" Seems there are many current Church leaders, lay and ordained, and perhaps...
pentecostvigilproj
Jul 28, 20236 min read
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