Recent Church Initiatives
The Synod
A synod: A Council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.
In this case, this Synod isn’t about changing the Church’s doctrine, nor about finding the ‘right’ answers to questions.
Pope Francis is asking us to dream what the Church could be, and to walk together into God’s future, where that Church becomes a reality.
Let us pray that we can dream with, listen to, and journey together with as many of our communities as possible, so that together we help to build up the Church in our diocese, and pass that message, loud and clear, to the bishops of England and Wales, and then to the Pope himself.
During the period of the Synod:
- Posters with the synod prayer are displayed on Form noticeboards.
- Prayer cards are given to all Students and Staff.
- The Synod prayer is said at the beginning and end of each day.
The importance of this is explained to Students and that the purpose of this prayer is for us to come together as community to pray for our future and that our hopes for the church become a reality.
