It’s sometimes said that synodality has never been properly defined, perhaps because modern ecclesiastical texts are not written by Schoolmen. A suitable definition might run, ‘Synodality is a spirit of co-responsibility for the life and mission of the Church which finds expression in decision-making processes or events and is applicable in an analogous way at the local (meaning parochial or diocesan), regional (meaning provincial, national, or patriarchal), and universal (meaning global) level of the Church body’.
Synodality, so understood, is coming to you soon.
The Office of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops announced on 15 March, 2025 that, in preparation for an ‘Ecclesial Assembly’ in October 2028, there will be, starting in June of this year, a phase of implementation in local churches of the proposals contained in the Final Document of the Synod on Synodality insofar as these are currently compatible with existing Church law. That phase will run till December 2026, after which, in the first six months of 2027, there will be held ‘evaluative assemblies’ in every diocese to consider the results of the implementation so far achieved.
Then, in the second six months of 2026, similar evaluative assemblies on the territory of national or international Bishops’ Conferences will consider the reports of the diocesan evaluative assemblies, while in the first six months of 2028 evaluative assemblies will take place at the Continental level, coordinating the results of the national or international assembles and enabling the production in June 2028 of an Instrumentum laboris to guide the deliberations of the Great Ecclesial Assembly billed for October of that same year. That final Assembly, which will also consider the ten reports of the study groups on particular topics set up in the second, 2024, phase of the Synod on Synodality, is then to determine the manner whereby synodality will be introduced into the universal Church.
It was further explained that, to begin this entire process, each diocese must decide on the membership of ‘synodal teams’ consisting of priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, and laity, accompanied by the local bishop.
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