{"id":1212,"date":"2005-10-12T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T09:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/from-the-synod.html"},"modified":"2005-10-12T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T09:55:33","slug":"from-the-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/from-the-synod.html","title":{"rendered":"From the Synod.."},"content":{"rendered":"

This update contains many statements from the non-Catholic auditors<\/a><\/p>\n

As well as this comment from an Eastern Rite bishop from the U.S.:<\/p>\n

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Finally, I wish to speak of the clergy. This seems to be lacking in the Instrumentum Laboris. They are the persons through whom the Eucharist is brought to the people of God. It is important to be supportive, affirming and appreciative of all priests in the world and from my perspective the priests of the United States. The lack of vocations is a critical problem as well as the adequate inculturation of the those clergy from the lands of origin of their respective Eastern Churches. What is needed for our clergy, whether married or celibate, is to live an authentic holy life. They need to be the models of the gospel lived in their respective eastern traditions. They need to have a strong bibilical and theological formation in the theologies of Eastern Fathers, and fmally, since the Eucharist is the center of our lives, they need to be people of prayer in the true traditions of the East.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The full English translation of this morning’s interventions is not up yet, but the multilingual edition is <\/a>(the interventions as delivered by the bishops in their own languages), and I was struck by this comment from a Filipino auditor (speaking in English) speaking of the youth of her country:<\/p>\n

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The Church – mater et magistra – does not seem able to grasp them. Maybe they do not listen to her as a teacher because they have not experienced her as a mother.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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