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Synod Journey Blog
Our thoughts along the synod road.
Debbie Stollery
- Sep 12
- 4 min
It's About Relations...Yes, Relations!
Communion is about relationships between more parties than you might think. How will we foster them?
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Debbie Stollery
- Sep 5
- 4 min
HGTV and Synodality
Join in laying the foundations for the conversion to a synodal Church by first understanding the building blocks.
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Debbie Stollery
- Aug 29
- 4 min
It's been 3 years and....where are we now?
Ever try to share the story of a wonderful trip you took? It's rarely sequential or categorized. So it is with the #synodourney.
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Debbie Stollery
- Aug 22
- 4 min
On Family Reunions and the Synod
I caught synodality's vision this past weekend at our family reunion. Read on to see how!
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Debbie Stollery
- Aug 16
- 5 min
A Call to Conversion
If you love another, not only will you change, you will be ok with it because love makes it something do-able.
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Debbie Stollery
- Aug 9
- 5 min
Re-Thinking Baptism's Importance
Baptism matters! We die and rise to new life, a new Spirit within, a new way of living. But do we? Synodality is counting on it!
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Debbie Stollery
- Aug 2
- 7 min
Let us create them in our image
If we're created in God's image and imbued with God's Spirit, what does that mean for how we are the Church?
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Debbie Stollery
- Jul 25
- 7 min
Discernment: A spiritual practice for a synodal Church
What does God want? How are we supposed to figure that out? Discernment...a contemplative practice.
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Debbie Stollery
- Jul 18
- 6 min
The Holy Spirit at work in the Eucharist: Key to a Synodal Church
Photo Credit Deborah Stollery (c) 2024 Sacred Heart Catholic Church Tampa FL This is the fourth is a series of blogs on the...
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Debbie Stollery
- Jul 11
- 5 min
Beauty, the Spirit and Synodality
Beauty is one of the ways the Spirit calls us into communion with the Lord and one another. Read on to discover this amazing gift!
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Debbie Stollery
- Jul 5
- 6 min
Listening to the Holy Spirit: A synodal spiritual practice
Listening to the Holy Spirit takes preparation. Read on to see what the delegates and documents tell us!
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Debbie Stollery
- Jun 27
- 5 min
Synodality as a Spiritual Practice
I'm a practical sort. I like to operationalize ideas...to figure out how to "do" something.
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Debbie Stollery
- Mar 26
- 2 min
Happy Holy Week!
The most sacred days of our liturgical year are upon us. As I write this, Pat Clement, one of the co-founders of the Pentecost Vigil...
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pentecostvigilproj
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Synodality: Fluff or Foundation?
Photo Unsplash/Patrick Schneider It snowed here overnight. When I went to bed, there were ice pellets gathering on the coldest spots...
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pentecostvigilproj
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Keeping One Another's Silence
“To pray means to change,” Douglas V. Steere writes in his foreword to Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer. I would amend this to say...
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pentecostvigilproj
- Oct 1, 2023
- 2 min
It's GO! time.... the Synod on Synodality is beginning
It's an odd time to be an American Catholic. While much of the world is praying, watching and waiting for the Holy Spirit's inspiration...
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pentecostvigilproj
- Sep 27, 2023
- 3 min
Let's get set ... for the Synod on Synodality!
Do you remember when you were a kid, and the tug of war was about to begin? There'd be someone, usually an adult, calling out to us,...
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pentecostvigilproj
- Sep 25, 2023
- 2 min
What is this excitement about the Synod?
Welcome guest blogger and PVP Leadership Team member Karen Jennings! Karen's relatively new to our Team and brings to us her many...
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pentecostvigilproj
- Sep 14, 2023
- 3 min
Synodal Faith: Not for the faint or fearful
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." — Saint Augustine Here's what I do not...
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