Lawrence
Hall, HSG
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
The Synod on Synodality
“There are to be forty interlocking committees sitting
every day…”
-C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, p. 36
One reads the words of the committees:
The grammar of synodality our
times the time journeying together breaking molds inclusion experts
facilitators process delegation the people totality sense of the faithful organize
discussion opening remarks challenges continental stage novelties dynamic legitimize
interrelation common discernment modules instrumentum laboris synthesis
report road map response paradigm preparation planning natural vision human
planning expectations narrative of radical change shifting models of synodality
conciliarity emblematic expression methodology dubia divine discourse adjudicate
delineating areas of consensus specific situational analyses media framing
reinterpreting confidentiality requirements module serenity of the discernment
in common implementation phase inclusive ecclesial process participatory ways
of exercising responsibility social dialogue regenerating relationships initiate
the processes practicing synodality a double dynamic of conversion articulations
of synodality ten thematic nuclei to be explored synodal dialogue the potential
of synodal engagement national synthesis document consultative sessions what it
means to be church social media template an operative notion national synthesis
of the people of God contextualize diocesan phase of the synodal process enduring
wounds needs-friendly steps for discerning ongoing formation for mission…
Brushing aside this choking fog of words
The reader ceases to read, for he sees
A silent, sandal-shod saint in a raggedy cloak
Having fed the chickens now telling his beads
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