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The Synod as an Emmaus Journey!
by John Freund, CM | October 30, 2019 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Seeing beyond each personal experience! Isn’t that what the Synod is about? We hear the Spirit and recognize the inadequacies of our individual understandings regarding the the needs of peoople in other parts of the world.
After Three and a Half Weeks, the Synod 2018 Ended
by Celestino Fernández, C. M. | November 3, 2018 | Church, News | 0 Comments
Stark Message to Synod from Vincentian Cardinal
by John Freund, CM | October 27, 2018 | News | 0 Comments
The Synod as an Emmaus Journey!
by John Freund, CM | October 3, 2018 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments
My hope is that all the participants of the Youth Synod will experience their own version of the Emmaus journey – looking at things they thought they knew… but seeing them in a new light. Now that would be the beginning of a profound systemic change!
Stark Message to Synod from Vincentian Cardinal
by John Freund, CM | Oct 27, 2018 | News
A stark message from a Vincentian Cardinal at the Youth Synod “The question … in Africa for the youth is not what...
The Synod as an Emmaus Journey!
by John Freund, CM | Oct 3, 2018 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
My hope is that all the participants of the Youth Synod will experience their own version of the Emmaus journey – looking at things they thought they knew… but seeing them in a new light. Now that would be the beginning of a profound systemic change!
CM Cardinal Souraphiel and African family values
by John Freund, CM | Jun 11, 2015 | Church, News
CM Cardinal Souraphiel and African family values
The more things change, the more they stay the same
by John Freund, CM | Oct 27, 2014 | Vincentian Family
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The tone of the debates about the document, “The Church in Modern World”, during a two year discussion of the document that has shaped the church for 50 years, seems eerily reminiscent of the discussion of the Synod of Bishops.
“Gradualism” in real life – From atheist to nun
by John Freund, CM | Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Deacon Greg Kandra blogs the story The “gradual” homecoming of Sister Theresa, an atheist who became a nun. She is exemplifies the principle of gradualism that the bishops are speaking about at the Synod. He writes... Those who have been following the Synod in Rome...