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Synod Journey Blog
Our thoughts along the synod road.

Debbie Stollery
Jan 234 min read
Connection and Direction: the Synod, the Encyclical and the Jubilee Year
Is there a connection between the synod's Final Document, the Pope's recent encyclical and the Jubilee Year of Hope? Here's what I see!
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Debbie Stollery
Jan 162 min read
Glitters of Hope
Let's spread the glitters of hope in this Jubilee Year of Hope, so that all the world can see God's Kingdom here and now!
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Debbie Stollery
Aug 22, 20244 min read
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, 20245 min read
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, 20245 min read
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, 20247 min read
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, 20247 min read
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, 20246 min read
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, 20245 min read
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, 20246 min read
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, 20245 min read
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, 20242 min read
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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Debbie Stollery
Mar 22, 20243 min read
Choose Now!
It's the last Friday of Lent. Today's Scriptures introduce us to the notion of standing firm in what God wants, even when we don't...
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Debbie Stollery
Mar 7, 20244 min read
Participation means Preparation
Photograph Unsplash/Aaron Burden We have good news and not-so-good-news. First the really good news: We've re-done our website. It's...
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pentecostvigilproj
Jan 16, 20244 min read
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 11, 20233 min read
Synod on Synodality: Dare we hope? Asked by a hopeful skeptic!
It's Monday October 9th and I'm writing from a specatcular Jekyll Island, GA. Had no power on Saturday so I couldn't follow what was...
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pentecostvigilproj
Oct 6, 20233 min read
We've been trying to build interest in the Synod in our parish
It was a challenge, but it was worth it! We, my wife and I, recently planned and presented a program at our parish to raise awareness...
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pentecostvigilproj
Oct 1, 20232 min read
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, 20233 min read
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 21, 20234 min read
Ready...Set...Go! First step? Get Ready!
"The ongoing synodal process is not only the most important moment in the life of the Catholic Church since Vatican II. It's also the...
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