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Synod Update from Rome
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“The synod process itself was somewhat rushed” – Bishop Cullinan’s (Waterford & Lismore) response to the National Synthesis Document
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Hands
Chris McDonnell thinks about one thing that has been missed in recent weeks – “the exchange of touch between each other in recent weeks for without words our hands speak of our emotions, our cares and our suffering.”
“It is with our hands that we take and give, share and consume. What could be more practical than we receive the gift of the Christ in the same manner?”
And the walls came tumbling down…
Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, and thinking of different walls through history reminds us that “The simple yet profound injunction of Jesus that we should ‘love God and our neighbor as ourselves’, is too easily forgotten.” We should he says “Pause awhile and tear down those walls.”
On Daniel O Leary’s ‘Coming Home Too Soon’ – The Tablet 02 February 2019
Seamus Ahearne reflects on the final article written by Daniel O Leary for The Tablet – ‘Coming Home Too Soon.
We carry a link to the article in The Tablet.
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