The Archdiocese’s new Episcopal Vicar for Education and Faith Formation will present a workshop later this month to unpack the first of six Plenary Council themes.
In May 2020, on the feast of Pentecost, the Plenary facilitating team reached another milestone by publishing the discernment papers on each of the six National Themes for Discernment.
Father Vincent Glynn will speak at a free session titled “Towards the Plenary Council 2020:
Understanding a Missionary and Evangelising Church” on Thursday 27 August from 5.30pm to 6.45pm at Newman Siena Centre (Room S.101), hosted by the Centre for Faith Enrichment.
The former Senior Lecturer in Sacramental Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia Fremantle is also among the delegates for Perth.
Canon law outlines those who must be called as delegates to a plenary council, including bishops, vicars general, episcopal vicars, heads of seminaries and theological institutions, and leaders of religious congregations. That added up to 180 delegates Australia-wide.
A key theme highlighted by the recent consultation process for the upcoming Plenary Council was the importance of the need for the Church in Australia to be an evangelising Church – a Church that understands its mission and purpose in the world of today and into the future.
Topics to be covered in Fr Glynn’s presentation will include: is this evangelisation that has been called for by many of the recent Popes? Who is it for? What is the Holy Spirit saying to the Church in Australia about this important work? Who is the writings aimed at and how it is the proclamation of both the Gospel and of the person of Christ?
A decision was made earlier this year to postpone the two assemblies for the fifth Plenary Council of Australia, which will now be held in Adelaide from 3 to 10 October 2021 and in Sydney from 4 to 9 July 2022.
The new dates mean that the celebration of the Plenary Council has effectively moved 12 months from the original plan of a first assembly in October 2020, and a second assembly in July 2021.
Work recently began on the development of the working document – Instrumentum Laboris – with the document drawing heavily on the first two preparatory phases of the Council journey: Listening and Dialogue, and Listening and Discernment.
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