Synod Listening sessions take the process into Spring
Synodal Listening Sessions continue around the diocese. The most recent schedule of remaining sessions is at right. Compiled, detailed notes from each session will be sent with others from around the world to Rome for the 2023 World Synod of Bishops. Local sessions...
Bishop Lucia to hold special listening sessions
Bishop Douglas J. Lucia, in his ongoing preparation for the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to be held 2023, has been listening to the people of God throughout the Diocese in a series of listening sessions. In the preparatory document for the Synod, Pope...
Updated schedule of synodal listening sessions in PCAs
CNY weather patterns and COVID-19 flare-ups may temporarily challenge the synodal listening effort, but nothing will stop the process from running its full intended course! Below is an updated schedule of PCA (Pastoral Care Area) listening sessions for the diocese....
Listening sessions continue to provide input for the Synod
After beginning the New Year by having to postpone four listening sessions due to the surge in COVID cases, we have been able to continue our journey throughout the diocese, listening to the hopes, dreams and concerns of the People of God in the Diocese of Syracuse....
Synodal listening sessions continue in the diocese
By Sister Katie Eiffe, CSJ Note: Sister Katie is the Diocesan Vicar for Religious and Director of Synodal Planning. Listening Sessions with Bishop Douglas J. Lucia, in preparation for the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, continue throughout the Diocese. ...
Synodal Listening Sessions continue in all shapes and sizes
By Deacon Tom Cuskey and Tom Maguire Bishop Douglas J. Lucia continued this past week to move through the calendar of diocesan Listening Sessions in preparation of the Synod of the World’s Bishops in 2023. Notes and records from Listening Sessions held around the...
Listening Session No. 1 wows Bishop Lucia
He hears impassioned commentary as synodal process inspires speakers By Tom Maguire | Associate editor One participant said his job entails speaking, but they were all orators Nov. 3 at the opening Listening Session of the Diocesan Synod. “I am so impressed by what I...
Synod Listening Sessions are under way
By Sister Katie Eiffe, CSJ By now, hopefully, you have heard about the “Synodal Listening Sessions” which are scheduled in the various Pastoral Care Areas throughout the diocese. These listening sessions are part of Bishop Douglas J. Lucia’s preparation for the 16th...
The Synod gives voice to the people and the Church is all-ears
By Sister Katie Eiffe, CSJ Editor’s note: Sister Katie Eiffe is the Vicar for Religious and Diocesan Director of Synod Planning. You have been reading about the World Synod of Bishops, and our diocesan preparation in “Listening Sessions” as a way of expressing our...
Diocesan Synod invites comments on hopes, dreams, concerns
Editor’s note: Sister Katie Eiffe is the Vicar for Religious and Diocesan Director of Synod Planning. By Sister Katie Eiffe, CSJ If you have been reading the Sun for the last few weeks, you know that we have embarked on a synodal process! The Holy Father has called...
A message to religious women and men in the diocese
By Sister Katie Eiffe, CSJ When Bishop Douglas J. Lucia appointed me as Director of Synodal Planning, he also named me as Vicar for Religious. In that role, I serve as a liaison between the religious communities who serve in the diocese, and the Bishop. Bishop Lucia...
Carrying the light of Christ, Oct 21: The Mantle of Servanthood and its Vision
Editor’s note: This is the Bishop’s homily delivered at the Sunday, Oct. 17, Mass celebrating the opening of the Syracuse Diocesan Synod. The leader of a certain Indian tribe encamped at the base of a mountain was dying. The chief summoned his three sons and said, “I...
Opening Mass for Synodal Process takes ‘stance of listening’
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor B ishop Douglas J. Lucia focused on three important events “in the life of our diocesan church” on Sunday, Oct. 17. The first was the Mass of Installation of the Relic of Pope Saint John Paul II at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of...
Diocese poised for big synodal ‘LISTEN’
By Sister Katie Eiffe, CSJ And so we begin! Pope Francis has formally convoked the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome with a Liturgy in Rome on Oct. 10. Bishop Lucia will mark that event and open the Syracuse Diocesan Synod with a Liturgy...
By listening to Holy Spirit, synod can be process of healing, pope says
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — A synod calls on everyone to become an expert in “the art of encounter” in a way that is uplifting and transformative, Pope Francis said, formally opening the process leading up to the assembly of the Synod of...
Synod means ‘journeying together’
By Sister Katie Eiffe, CSJ Pope Francis has called for the XVI General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, to be held in October of 2023 in Rome. He has titled the Synod “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission.” The Second Vatican Council restored the...
Upcoming diocesan synod ‘engages all of us,’ DPC hears
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor To help people “grow in their faith” via the synod process, Bishop Douglas J. Lucia will preside at the Mass celebrating the Opening of the Synod for the Diocese of Syracuse at 5:10 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate...
‘We are one diocese’: At his second anniversary, Bishop Lucia is focused on unity, fostering ‘one community of love’
August 8 will mark the second anniversary of Bishop Douglas J. Lucia’s ordination and installation as the Diocese of Syracuse’s 11th bishop. The Catholic Sun recently sat down with the bishop to look back at the year’s ups and downs and to look ahead at his goals for the months to come.
