Messina delegation to the Synodal Assembly of the Italian Churches

John

By John

Also a Messina delegation led by the auxiliary bishop Cesare Di Pietro He participated in the second synodal assembly of the Churches of Italy which took place in Rome, in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. An extraordinary event that has recalled over a thousand people among lay people, bishops, priests, deacons and religious from all over Italy at the end of which the final document should have been voted to be delivered to the bishops with the guidelines for the choices to be made in local churches. Many amendments and changes proposed to the text developed and enclosed in 50 propositions, from which some priorities emerged including the promotion of dialogue, full human development, poverty and work, social communication, centrality of people on the margins, protagonism of young people in training and pastoral action. At the end of the works chaired by the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, the Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppithe participants approved the Motion proposed by the Committee of the Way Synodaland with the presidency in which the publication of the final document was asked to postpone in October during a third assembly. “We have lived days of open discussion and in -depth study of the propositions, developed over the past few months”, the CEI delegates to the Pope, convalescent at Casa Santa Marta write, of which – they say – have heard “closeness and support”. “The Church – they underlined by quoting Bergoglio – is not a parliament, but a community of brothers gathered in the only faith in the Lord, crucified and risen: each has brought and therefore proposed his baggage of faith, hope and charity”. The postponement “It seemed necessary to be given the difficulties that emerged”, said Cardinal Zuppi, in the subsequent briefing with journalists in the chapter room of the Basilica of San Pietro, necessary to “have a congruous time of maturation to get to decisions. We are sure that a more mature text will allow even more prophetic choices that concern the future”. The concern of the Permanent Council of the Episcopal Conference, explained Zuppi again, was that of “not going around and putting on the way to decisions and, from this point of view, there has been a lot of spirit and participation; now we have to translate this with the awareness that there is no perfect text”. It is therefore necessary, therefore the president of the National Committee of the Synodal Way Committee also said the Bishop Erio Castellucci, “a global rethinking and the reworking of some parts, but looking towards a new perspective”.