In order to prepare for the Second Session of the 2021-2024 Synod, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission”, which will take place in the coming month of October, does not St. Mary’s Cathedral need to hear my voice, even though Bishop Zurek, Father Tony and others may not have the ears to hear❓
Shouldn’t I commend myself to every human being with a conscience by stating the truth openly in the sight of God; conversely, isn’t this also the way I prepare within my heart a fitting dwelling place so that Christ will come to me and console me;…
… moreover, if I don’t obey my conscience when it tells me, “whatever I command you, you shall speak“;…
…then, how can I, “sing of (the Lord’s) salvation“;…
…accordingly, Alleluia, alleluia;
because, “The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower;
all who come to him will live for ever”;
Alleluia, alleluia;…
…consequently, realizing, “that a true ecological approach (which I’m called personally to undertake) always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor“; therefore, if I’m sowing my seeds with synodality in a Laudato Si’ style, must I not do as I heard Father Tony say this morning in his Homily, and not get despondent if whoever doesn’t have ears to hear my gospel, doesn’t❓