Cardinal Grech: Nun’s meditations can help Church have ‘ever more synodal style’
September 09, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, has written the foreword to a collection of Mother Maria Ignazia Angelini’s meditations for participants in the October 2023 session of the Synod on synodality.
Quoting Mother Angelini—born in 1944, and former abbess of Viboldone Abbey—Cardinal Grech described the Psalms as a “womb of meaning” and “fertile womb of all synodality” that helped the first generation of Christian disciples to understand Jesus and their own experience.
Mother Angelini’s emphasis on the “centrality of the liturgy, of the Word, of the Psalms,” Cardinal Grech added, can “support a path of meditation and study for the continuation of the path towards a Church with an ever more synodal style.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Sep. 10, 2024 11:10 PM ET USA
If "synodal" is synonymous with "exclusion" and "denial of dignity", then a "more synodal style" is synonymous with clericalism. As many orthodox lay Catholics have discovered through their participation in "listening sessions", the conveners of these sessions are tone deaf: they only hear what they want to hear, what conforms to their own agenda, i.e., the agenda of the Church hierarchy, both here and in the Vatican. Because of this tone deafness, many of us found these sessions unsatisfactory.
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Posted by: feedback -
Sep. 09, 2024 7:41 AM ET USA
It appears that the way to promotion under Francis is to use "synodality" and anything "synodal": synodal way, synodal style. Or, "ever more synodal style." Without a clear definition "synodality" is becoming a form of the emperor's new clothes. Pray for the Church - our Mother!
