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Women and the Plenary Assembly

Our Lady of Pentecost 15 July 2022 6 Comments
“Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention to God’s active presence,…
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Cathy Jenkins

Plenary Thoughts

Our Lady of Pentecost 15 October 2021 2 Comments
Every organisation at some point in its history, in order to thrive, needs to grow and change in light of the needs of the time.  We would probably use the…
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Plenary Council

Plenary Council Begins

Our Lady of Pentecost 1 October 2021 No Comments
The long awaited Fifth Australian Plenary Council, confirmed by the Catholic Bishops Conference in 2016, commences this Sunday, 3 October with the Opening Mass being held at St Mary’s Cathedral in…
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Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Eight

Our Lady of Pentecost 10 September 2021 No Comments
Synodality and the Australian Plenary Council Over the last weeks in this series, we have been looking at the issue of synodality.  This week we will bring this series to…
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Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Seven

Our Lady of Pentecost 3 September 2021 No Comments
Ecumenical Councils – Synodality Historically, one of the fundamental exercises of Synodality was the calling of an Ecumenical Council.  These were called because of serious crises in the life of…
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Towards the Plenary Council – Part Five

Our Lady of Pentecost 20 August 2021 No Comments
Did Synodality disappear in the course of History? The word synodality is coming back into greater use over these years that Pope Francis has been Pope. Even though we had…
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Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Four

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Synods in History In the first millennium whenever there was an issue that was critical for the church, the reaction tended to call for a synod.  So significant issues were…
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Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Two

Our Lady of Pentecost 30 July 2021 No Comments
Synodality and the Plenary Council Synodality is not a word that is familiar to most Catholics.  There have been synods all through the history of the Church. They were especially…
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Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part One

Our Lady of Pentecost 23 July 2021 No Comments
There is to be a Plenary Council for the Catholic Church in Australia, whose first session is scheduled for October this year in Adelaide. We have been preparing for this…
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