Details: Synodal Pathway – Kilkenny, Sat 18 Oct 2025

When          Tomorrow, 18 October 2025, from 8.30am
Where         Kilkenny Convention Centre, Kilkenny, R95 F685
Who            Laity, religious, and clergy from across the island of Ireland

Pre-Synodal Assembly schedule

  • 08.30am – Registration
  • 10.00am – Opening prayer and welcome
  • 10.30am – Presentation: ‘What has emerged from the National Process so far’
  • 11.00am – Break
  • 11.30am – Conversation in the Spirit
  • 13.15pm – Lunch
  • 14.45pm – Reaching Consensus on the Main Points from the Morning
  • 16.30pm – Looking Ahead to the First National Synodal Assembly 2026
  • 17.00pm – Summary and prayer

About the Pre-Synodal Assembly
This gathering builds on local Spring Gatherings from February to May this year, when communities across Ireland came together to consider how the Holy Spirit is speaking through the emerging proposals and themes and to identify priorities for action.  The reflections and priorities gathered were prayerfully considered by the National Synodal Team, listening for the Spirit’s guidance.  From that discernment, a picture has emerged of both the hopes and tensions shaping our life as Church, and the directions where the Spirit is calling us.  Now, in Kilkenny, this gathering seeks to deepen that listening and begin shaping concrete pathways for renewal.  This is a moment to move from shared reflection to decisions for action and mission, rooted in our baptismal calling and guided by the Spirit.  The purpose of the Pre-Synodal Assembly is to:

  • Share the fruits of listening carried out across dioceses and communities.
  • Discern the priorities being placed before us as a Church.
  • Prepare the ground for the National Synodal Assembly in 2026.

Delegates are being asked to carry the voices of their communities to the Assembly, to listen deeply to one another in the Spirit, and to confirm whether these emerging priorities reflect what God is asking of us.  It is also a space to name differences honestly and hold them in faith, trusting that harmony can emerge amidst diversity.  In this way, the Assembly will help shape the agenda and direction of the next year’s Assembly, ensuring it is firmly rooted in the lived faith and experience of the People of God.

Key features of the Assembly

  • Mixed round-table discussions using the Conversation in the Spiritmethod
  • Reflections on insights from the 2025 Spring Gatherings
  • Shared prayer and the Renewal of Baptismal Promises
  • Rooted in the question: ‘What does God want from the Church in Ireland at this time?’

To read Baptised and Sent – the preparatory document for Pre-Synodal Assembly – please click HERE

Information on the Irish Synodal Pathway can be found on www.synod.ie

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