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This event today and yesterday gives a glimpse of a future of Christian community that constrasts tellingly with the ghastly shackles of our clericalism (as manifested especially in our frozen liturgy in which the expressive charisms of the faithful are stifled). “The old order changeth yielding place to new/ And God fulfils himself in many ways.”
Professor Tom O’Loughlin explains what “Synodality” is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vjhh9cFog&t=38s