The race is on. Cardinal Mario Grech, the Secretary General of the Synod wrote in the 2025 Synodal Pathways letter and addressed the need for immediate action from 2025-2028:
“It is the urgency of this mission that drives us to implement the Synod, a task for which all the Baptised share responsibility.”
What is this urgent mission? Why suddenly is there a frantic sprint to get there? So much for the leisurely pilgrimage of mutual listening. After years of sermons about listening, dialogue, accompaniment, discernment, and journeying the Synodal machine is now suddenly racing toward 2030 as if heaven, itself imposed a filing deadline.
Weren’t we listening to the promptings of the Spirit during this synodal stroll to spiritual nirvana? Who imposed the stop clock on the Third Person of the Trinity?
According to General Cardinal Grech, the hijacked Holy Spirit now is expected to step it up and submit to quarterly objectives and implementation milestones. For a process that claims to have no predetermined outcome, it now displays an astonishing anxiety to meet one.
Catholics were assured that synodality(whatever that is) was not about outcomes, but about journeying; not about conclusions but conversations; not about destinations, but discernment. Weren’t Catholics urged to spend years listening, journeying and accompanying one another through the sacred fog of perpetual dialogue, and waiting upon the {Holy} Spirit to direct us?
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