Cardinal Oswald Gracias appealed to every Catholic faithful to transform the Church in India to a Synodal Church.
Cardinal Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai, spoke during the inauguration of the diocesan phase of the Synod at the Holy Name Cathedral in Mumbai on October 17.
Cardinal Gracias, the president of Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), said that “To transform the Church to a Synodal Church, we have to walk together in the same path including everybody, we have to encounter Jesus through prayer and adoration and to hear what the Spirit wants to say to the Church. Church should listen to all than hearing.”
Quoting Pope Francis, the Cardinal Gracias reiterated tha, “the Synod is a process of spiritual discernment, of ecclesial discernment, that unfolds in adoration, in prayer and dialogue with the word of God.”
Cardinal Gracias released a handbook for the Synod titled “For a Synodal Church.”
“The Handbook for the Synod is a useful tool for all those involved in the two-year-long ‘Synodal Journey,’ which will unfold itself in three phases of consultations, at the diocesan, the continental, and the universal levels, culminating in October 2023, in Rome,” noted the press release by Father Stephen Alathara, the Deputy Secretary General of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI).
On September 7, 2021, the Vatican’s Secretary-General of the Synod of Bishops has released an official handbook for listening and discernment in the local churches for the first phase beginning from October 2021 to April 2022 to assist dioceses and Bishops’ Conferences leading up to the Synod of Bishops in October 2023.
Click the link to access the document titled, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission: Vademecum for the Synod on Synodality.”
The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) published the book. For copies, kindly contact the CCBI General Secretariat or call Mobile: +91-9886730224.
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