The diocese participates in a Mission Cooperative Plan (MCP) to promote awareness of missions worldwide in the parishes throughout the diocese, the diocesan website states.
The way we all practice and live out our communal faith life has been affected by this pandemic. As a result, people’s expectations of and commitment to the practice of our faith have been affected, some for the better and some for the worse. Our people have changed; has our faith formation adapted? Are we just returning to what we did pre-pandemic? If we are, how’s that really working out? If we need change, what needs to be different? Can anything stay the same?
On Wednesday, January 26, 2022, the XV Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops met in person and online. The following items were at the center of their work: a progress report on the synodal process around the world and the articulation of criteria for the "reports" prepared by Dioceses, Episcopal Conferences, the Synods of Eastern Churches and other ecclesial bodies.
Please join us on Sunday, January 23, from 1-3pm, for an afternoon on reflection on the place of the Scriptures in a Synodal Church. The session will be presented online by Drs. Matthew Coomber, Ella Johnson, and Micah Kiel from St. Ambrose University. Click on the title to learn more about resgistration.
On the occasion of the USCCB Fall General Assembly, Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General for the Synod of Bishops sent a video-message to the US bishops gathering in these day in Baltimore.
“Indeed, both synodality and ecumenism are processes of ‘walking together’ ”. In fact, “as ecumenism can be understood as an 'exchange of gifts', one of the gifts Catholics can receive from the other Christians is precisely their experience and understanding of synodality”.
In 2016, Pope Francis added a new corporal work of mercy, Care for our Common Home, and a new spiritual work of mercy, Contemplation of Creation. Now we have eight of each instead of seven!