The final congregation of the Second Session of the General Assembly of of the Synod on Synodality (October 2024) (Vatican Media)
Vatican offers new guidance for Synod’s implementation
phase
The General Secretariat of the Synod releases “Pathways for
the Implementation of the Synod”, which provides “an interpretive key for
understanding the implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality.”
By Christopher Wells
A new document from the Synod of Bishops is intended “to
provide an interpretive key for understanding the implementation phase of the
synodal process.”
Released by the Synod on Monday, Pathways for the Implementation Phase of the Synod offers
“local Churches throughout the world the world a shared framework that will
make it easier to walk together” and promotes “the dialogue that will lead the
whole Church to the Ecclesial Assembly,” set for October 2028 that will mark
the culmination of the synodal process begun by Pope Francis in 2020.
Pope Francis at the
Synod on Synodality (Vatican Media)
Opening Pathways, Cardinal Mario Grech, the
Secretary General of the Synod, notes that “the synodal form of the Church is
at the service of its mission… it is the urgency of this mission that drives us
to implement the Synod, a task for which all the baptized share
responsibility.”
He says that the General Secretariat of the Synod, which
prepared the new document, is at the service of the local Churches, ready “to
listen to them, support their efforts, and, above all, contribute to animating
the dialogue and exchange of gifts between the Churches.”
Pathways opens with an explanation of the
implementation phase and its objectives, and goes on to describe the
participants of the implementation phase, along with their tasks and
responsibilities; to suggest how to engage with the Synod’s Final
Document, the main point of reference for this phase of the Synod journey;
and to offer advice on methods and tools that “can help shape our path during
the implementation phase.”
Pope Leo at a meeting
with Members of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod in
June (@Vatican Media)
“We convey” these pathways, says Cardinal Grech, “to the
entire People of God, who are the subjects of the synodal journey, and in
particular to the Bishops and Eparchs, to the members of the synodal teams, and
to all those who are involved in various ways in the implementation phase.”
The aim, he adds, “is of making them feel our support and
continuing the dialogue that has characterized the entire synodal journey.”
The full text of Pathways for the Implementation
Phase of the Synod can be found on the website of the Synod on
Synodality, www.synod.va.
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