"Let us pray that the Church continue to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of coresponsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity. ”
“We are community.” This is one thing the Pope says to us for the month of October.
Pope
Francis reminds us of the importance of walking together, making
ourselves “co-responsible for the Church’s mission.” He also emphasizes
that priests are not “the bosses of the laity, but their pastors,” and
that “Jesus called us, one and others – not one above others, or one on
one side and others on another side, but complementing each other. We
are community.”
This
is why consecrated persons, the laity, priests, all Christians must
“witness with our lives,” always giving the best of what they know how
to do.
In a few brief sentences in the Pope Video, produced by
the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network in collaboration with the Diocese of
Brooklyn and the General Secretariat for the Synod, and with the
support of the Fondazione Pro Rete Mondiale di Preghiera del Papa, Pope
Francis summarizes this message of such great importance: “We are
co-responsible in mission, we participate and we live in the communion
of the Church.”
🙏 “Let us pray that the Church continue to
sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of
co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission
shared by priests, religious and laity.”
