Our Global Ecclesial Synodal Council gathering will hosted Dr. Elissa Roper on Friday/Saturday, April 12/13.

Now, you can listen to Dr. Elizza Roper’s Zoom recording (click the Zoom Recording Link Below).

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The path of synodality is being revealed through a great desire of faithful Catholics for change. The papacy of Francis, the revelations of abuse and clericalism, and a time of global pandemic, are heralds of an era of urgency. And so we know that now is the time to be the Church God wants us to be; the Church that our Earth needs us to be.

What does that look like? What are we to do? Fully aware of our wounds and our shortcomings, how can we – as Church – be responsible for our Common Home, loving, inclusive, and faithful to Jesus? What is God’s Spirit calling me – calling us – to do?

Dr Elissa Roper is an Australian theologian specializing in ecclesiology and synodality. She has a passion for renewing the Catholic Church’s understanding of the People of God as baptismal in identity, and missionary in discipleship. She has worked with the drafting committee of the Plenary Council and as a theological advisor to the Assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania.

Elissa works for the Sisters of Mercy. She manages a Program of Theology in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands which offers tertiary theological education for women. She has served in the areas of parish planning and liturgy, understanding clerical abuse and working for healing, and ecumenical and interfaith relations. She and her husband have four children and live in the beautiful Yarra Valley, Victoria.

All are welcome. To find the times for you in your locale, click on Our Universal Calendar. To join, click https://zoom.us/j/2429500175 :

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Join CCRI to participate in a Synodal Gathering

Since the first of the year, CCRI has been facilitating 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

• Women’s Synodal special gathering on Monday, April 8, 2024
• Synodal gathering, 2nd Saturday of every month, next on April 13, 2024
• Women’s Synodal gathering, every other Monday, next on April 15, 2024
• Synodal gathering, 3rd Wednesday of every month, next on April 17, 2024
• Young Adult Seekers Community, every other Thursday next on April 18, 2024
• Women’s Synodal gathering, every other Monday, next on April 29, 2024

You are welcome to join us to participate in a Synod. To find the times for you in your locale, click on our universal calendar and check the date on interest. Access for all online gatherings is https://zoom.us/j/2429500175 :

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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 of 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