ACI Zoom – Synodal Pathway Priorities – April 10th

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Irish Synodal Pathway


What should the priorities be?

Zoom Meeting Thursday 10th April at 8.00pm

The ACI were actively involved in the preparation for the Universal Synod on Synodality in Rome in October 2024. The preparations for the Irish Synodal Pathway, to be held in two stages (October 2025 and October 2026), are now under way.
We have again been asked to hold a gathering of our members and submit our proposals for the future of the Church in Ireland:
  1. The aim is to refine and prioritise the themes from the Irish National Synthesis of 2022.
  2. To reflect on the final document from the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality. (This document is significant as Pope Francis has chosen not to issue a post-synodal apostolic exhortation, instead embracing the discernment of the entire Church.)
Please join us on Thursday, April 10th for a general meeting/conversation – so that the ACI Steering Committee ‘hear you’ – and you have the opportunity to contribute to our response document.

We suggest that in preparation for the gathering, (if possible)

Join Zoom Meeting – 10th April 8.00 pm

Meeting ID: 865 4039 0463
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ACI’s Campaign for Lumen Gentium 37

The Promise of Synodality

What we have experienced of synodality so far gives ACI real hope that a longstanding structural injustice in the church may at last be acknowledged and overcome.

As all Irish bishops well know, the 'co-responsibility' they urge lay people to share - as numbers and energies of clergy decline - has been sabotaged time and again by canonical rules that deny representational authority and continuity to parish pastoral councils.  ACI's 2019 call for the immediate honouring of Lumen Gentium Article 37 becomes more urgent by the day and is supported by the following documents - also presented to the ICBC in October 2019.

The Common Priesthood of the People of God and the Renewal of the Church
It was Catholic parents and victims of clerical abuse who taught Catholic Bishops to prioritise the safeguarding of children in the church

Jesus as Model for the Common Priesthood of the People of God
It was for challenging religious hypocrisy and injustice that Jesus was accused and crucified. He is therefore a model for the common priesthood of the laity and for the challenging of injustice - in society and within the church.

A Suggested Strategy for the Recovery of the Irish and Western Catholic Church
Recovery of the church depends upon acknowledgment of the indispensable role of the common priesthood of the lay people of God and the explicit abandonment by bishops and clergy of paternalism and clericalism - the expectation of deference from lay people rather than honesty and integrity.

For the full story of ACI's campaign for the honouring of Article 37 of Lumen Gentium, click here.

Prayer

"Come Holy Spirit, Renew Your wonders in this our day, as by a new Pentecost. Grant to Your Church that, being of one mind and steadfast in prayer with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and following the lead of blessed Peter, it may advance the reign of our Divine Saviour, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. Amen."

Saint Pope John XXIII, 1962 - In preparation for Vatican Council II, 1962-65.

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