Bishop Zurek, for his part, called what Matthiesen did a ‘serious mistake,’ yet the memorial still remains.”
Why isn’t the weekly Thursday, 7:00 am laity-led Communion Service at St. Mary’s Cathedral listed alongside other parish events in the “Peek at the Week” section of the weekly bulletin, so we may all rejoice with those who participate❓
From Luke 15: 1-10
Could it be for the same reason that there is no public rejoicing over the “transparency, accountability, and evaluation” of:
- Protecting a memorial erected by a convicted pedophile priest for a bishop whom Bishop Zurek acknowledges made a “serious mistake“;
- Maintaining of a letter on the diocesan website rebuking “a few” who reported abuse at St. Mary’s Cathedral;
- Aborting of daily Masses at St. Mary’s Cathedral for the sake of priests’ health and spirituality;
- Building another bishop’s residence, effectively putting our next bishop “in his place” before he even arrives ❓
XVI ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS
How to be a missionary synodal Church
Instrumentum laboris
Part II – Pathways
Transparency, accountability, and evaluation
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“A synodal Church requires both a culture and practice of transparency and accountability, which are essential to fostering the mutual trust necessary for walking together and exercising co-responsibility for the sake of the common mission.” However, when Bishop Zurek rejoices over clandestine Communion services that appeases laity angered by aborted Masses at St. Mary’s Cathedral, is he not undermining “the mutual trust necessary for walking together and exercising co-responsibility for the common mission” of “we who worship through the Spirit of God“❓
“In the Church, the exercise of accountability does not primarily respond to social and organizational needs. Rather, its foundation is found in the very nature of the Church as a mystery of communion.” Therefore, instead of allowing a select few to rejoice over being permitted to conduct Communion services, wouldn’t journeying together on this synodal path, in which we are accountable to one another, be what will “Let hearts rejoice who search for the Lord.“❓
Alleluia, alleluia, Likewise, will not this transparency and accountability help us address the “serious mistake” memorial, the letter, aborted Eucharists, and the house Bishop Zurek built, so that all may rejoice and “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest, says the Lord.“❓
Alleluia, alleluia
Finally, isn’t it right to rejoice in transparency and accountability and to be excited by the immense possibilities they continue to open before us, rather than in our “sins against synodality“—which now put our new bishop in a position where he must “Just Say NO❣️” to being “put in his place” instead of hearing Bishop Zurek greeting him with…
“‘Rejoice with me because I have found’” ❓
Humanity has entered a new era in which our technical prowess has brought us to a crossroads. We are the beneficiaries of two centuries of enormous waves of change: steam engines, railways, the telegraph, electricity, automobiles, airplanes, chemical industries, modern medicine, information technology and, more recently, the digital revolution, robotics, biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. It is right to rejoice in these advances and to be excited by the immense possibilities which they continue to open up before us, for “science and technology are wonderful products of a God-given human creativity”.
From Paragraph 102 of ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME