SYNOD 2024: New multilingual course to explore how to live synodality

12 Jan 2023

By The Record

news conference at the Vatican 27 October
Anna Rowlands, professor of Catholic social thought and practice at Durham University in the United Kingdom, speaks at a news conference at the Vatican, 27 October to present the document for the continental phase of the Synod on synodality. The document aims to guide discussions at the regional or continental level in preparation for the Synod of Bishops. Photo: CNS/Junno Arocho Esteves.

Registrations are now open for the Multilingual Course on Synodality promoted by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre.

The multilingual course on synodality will commence with an introductory lecture by Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, on 17 January 2023 that the multilingual course.

The course, promoted by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre of the Sophia University was developed in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod, will consist of four stages: three academic modules and a residential meeting.

The course will look at topics related to the synodal process, including What is synodality? Is it in line with what is expressed in the Magisterium of the Church and Canon Law? How is it possible to live it in the Church?

Anna Rowlands, professor of Catholic social thought and practice at Durham University in the United Kingdom, speaks at a news conference at the Vatican, 27 October to present the document for the continental phase of the Synod on synodality. The document aims to guide discussions at the regional or continental level in preparation for the Synod of Bishops. Photo: CNS/Junno Arocho Esteves.

Addressed to the entire People of God (from bishops to pastoral workers, from priests to consecrated men and women, from seminarians to lay people), the course aims to offer a wide-ranging theological and pastoral preparation with the objective of providing the Christian community with a model for the communal exercise of Christian thinking and acting. The lectures will be held on the ZOOM platform.

Registration of the entire course or a single module is permitted. The lessons will be held in Italian, with simultaneous translation into Spanish, Portuguese and English.

The course is also aimed at members of the same community (parish, association, friends) who will thus be able to gain direct experience of the method of listening, dialogue and discernment at the basis of the Synodal Church.

For information and registration contact email ceg@sophiauniversity.org or visit https://www.sophiauniversity.org/it/centro-evangelii-gaudium

Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary-General of the Synod of Bishops, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican, 27 October 2022 to present the document for the continental phase of the Synod on synodality. The document aims to guide discussions at the regional or continental level in preparation for the Synod of Bishops. Photo: CNS/Junno Arocho Esteves.

Registration

Those who intend to register for the entire course must do so by 15 January 2023. Those wishing to follow one or more modules, on the other hand, have a deadline of:

  • 4 February for the 1st Module;
  • 4 March for the 2nd Module;
  • 6 May for the 3rd Module.

To register go to https://forms.gle/xb1SmD5mYW3zTo1A6