Learning What Differing Generations and Cultures Share In Common As We Strive to Reform Our Church
May 2, 2024
On Thursday, May 2, CCRI has scheduled a multi-generational global synodal gathering. This is an online synod for the purpose of discerning worldwide approval of a consolidated report proposing essential reform topics to be discussed at the 2nd Assembly in Rome, October 2024. This report has been created over several months by multiple synodal gatherings coming together through CCRI gatherings.
Please review the current version before the gathering and be prepared to offer additions, clarifications, deletions, and further improvements to the document. The final version will be submitted to the Synod office, voting delegates, and key international church organizations. We feel that the Synod office will find value in learning what reforms younger and older Catholics from many different cultures – Europeans, Asians, Australasians, North and South Americans – all share in common.
To find the times for you in your locale, click on May 2 on Our Universal Calendar.
Sign on is https://zoom.us/j/2429500175
Password: spirit
Join CCRI To Participate In A Synodal Gathering
Since the first of the year, CCRI has facilitated monthly synodal gatherings for all who have no other way to participate and wish to join us.
These are the coming synodal gatherings to be held in April and May:
- Synodal gathering, 3rd Wednesday of every month
- Young Adult Seekers Community, every other Thursday next on April 18, 2024
- Multi-generational global synodal gathering on May 2, 2024
- Monthly synodal gathering 1st Saturday next on May 4, 2024
- Young Adult Seekers Community, every other Thursday next on May 9, 2024
- Synodal gathering, 2nd Saturday of every month, next on May 11, 2024
- Bi-monthly Women’s Synodal gathering next on May 13, 2024
- Synodal gathering, 3rd Wednesday of every month, next on May 15, 2024
- Young Adult Seekers Community, every other Thursday next on May 23, 2024
- Bi-monthly Women’s Synodal gathering next on May 27, 2024
You are welcome to join us to participate in any of these Synods. To find the times for you in your locale, click on our universal calendar and check the date of interest.
Access for all online gatherings is https://zoom.us/j/2429500175
Password: spirit.
Your Donations Are Most Appreciated
YOUR GIFT – IN ANY AMOUNT – IS PRICELESS
When you make a donation to support our cause, you join with others who are investing in restoring our Church to what Jesus intended. If you are part of the movement to stop contributing to your local parish and/or diocese, you may want to take advantage of the end-of-year tax deductions by contributing to CCRI in its stead. The dollars we receive are used to run our programs and to reach a broad spectrum of the People of God. We are focused on reaching out to the Faithful, reform activists, young adults as well as those who feel abandoned by the Church, to mention just a few. Your contributions in offering your suggestions and your donations are most appreciated.
To remain silent is to be complicit with our Church as it is now. If we do nothing, nothing is likely to happen. But if each of us is willing to do something, join a synodal gathering or start one of your own with a few close friends. Remember, where two or three are gathered in His name, there God is in the midst of them. Let’s all do our part to step out of the pews, to come together and speak. But none of us can do this alone. We need to join our voices together and be a synodal Church to stay open to what is happening with each stage of the Synod from now through 2024. Becoming a synodal Church will only happen if we, the People of God, stay involved in the process.
On behalf of the CCRI steering committee,
Rene Reid
CCRI Director
