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To keep our Small Group’s energy levels up (and sugar levels too, unfortunately) we share chocolate during every session but today we were healthy with bananas! For some strange reason, they want me to bring whisky!
We are half way through the 4th Module, reflecting on ‘Places’ of synodal missionary activity: how can parishes, new movements, basic Christian communities, cultures, digital technology, migration, dioceses, Bishops’ Conferences, the Roman Curia, the Pope, plurality yet Unity of Faith etc help us become more missionary? What are the obstacles, what needs to change, what must develop, in a radically changing world, for us to become more relevant and effective missionaries?
+Brian

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At the daily briefing at the Holy See Press Office on the latest Synod developments, journalists learn that the Synod's General Assembly focused on a ...

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October 16, is the feast of St. Gerard

Born in Muro, about fifty miles south of Naples, Italy, in April 1726, St. Gerard accomplished much in his short life. He died on October 16, 1755 at the age of 29.

As a young man, Gerard was an apprentice tailor. His father had died young so Gerard was charged with providing income to support his mother and three sisters. He divided his earnings between his mother, the poor, and Masses for the deceased.

Gerard felt called to religious life. After various failed attempts to become a Franciscan friar, he was accepted into the Redemptorists in 1749. Two years later he made his profession as a religious brother.

Though he suffered various physical maladies that made him chronically weak in body, he did the work of three, and his great charity earned for him the title Father of the Poor. He is also the patron saint of Mothers due to his prayerful intervention that led to the successful birth of a child to a woman who was seemingly dying in childbirth. Both mother and child survived.

One of his last requests before his early death was that a white placard be tacked to his door with the inscription:

“Here the will of God is done, as God wills, and as long as God wills.”

Gerard died at the Redemptorist Monastery in Caposele, near the town of his birth. He is buried below the altar of Materdomini, the Redemptorist Church in Caposele.



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The Synod logo and message (For a Synodal church: communion, participation, mission) remains the same but the language constantly changes on our monitors. Now it is in Arabic. This visualises the richness of encounter here, as we listen to people from all across the world - and not restricted to the official meetings but over coffee, in our residences and during worship. As we reflect on Church life and how the Lord is leading us to deepen our mission such encounters are eye opening and encouraging. The Spirit is at work and people are responding from every tribe, race and nation! We are truly blessed to be here and I hope that I can share some of that with you when I return home.
+Brian
Mass will be celebrated tomorrow, Wednesday, at 3pm and will be broadcast on Vatican Media.

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