Synod Journey Blog

Our leaders, ordained and lay, need to know what synodal leadership looks like. And we need to know as well, so we can support it.

We're hearing the word synodal/synodality used but we still don't know what it means.

This begins another series of blogs in which we share what we are discovering about how to recognize synodality. We expect there will be...

Photo by Graddes/Unsplash It's Friday May 17th...and we've been praying together for 7 evenings. It's not too late to join us tonight at...

Image from Jimbadical via Google Images It's Friday, May 10th and this evening at 7:30PM EDT we begin our Pentecost Vigil Novena. Please...

Photo Boanca Suri/ Unsplash There's little that can instantly make me smile. But a picture like the one above, where the dog is clearly...

I had another wonderful experience of connection through a worldwide Conversation in the Spirit this past week!

Here's the ways we build synodal muscles in this in-between time!

It's Spring fundraising season and, like you, I'm getting bombarded by so MANY worthy causes and a few that are not on my passion list. ...

Thought leader Simon Sinek says that people buy your why...not your what. Not heard of him? Listen to his internationally famous TED...

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...

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...

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...

Photo Unsplash/Patrick Schneider It snowed here overnight. When I went to bed, there were ice pellets gathering on the coldest spots...

“To pray means to change,” Douglas V. Steere writes in his foreword to Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer. I would amend this to say...

Pope Francis states that the synodal process is not an isolated event, rather it heralds a new way of being Church: "Synodality is a...

Google Images Boston Community Choir I'm coming to appreciate a new image of the Holy Spirit: conductor. No, not the kind on a train;...

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...

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...

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,...