PUBLIC FORUM – Synodality: Now the Rubber Hits the Road

Synodality: Now the Rubber Hits the Road
Thursday 27^th Feb 2025
7:15pm-9:30pm
VENUE:  Marist College Staff auditorium (27 Marr St., PEARCE, A.C.T.)

With the conclusion of both the Synod on Synodality in Rome, and our own Archdiocesan Assembly, Catholics can choose to embrace this shared style of Church, or continue with more of the same.

Concerned Catholics Canberra-Goulburn (CCCG) are all for change. This public forum will hear from speakers to open discussion on implications of synodality for our parishes, school boards, social services and youth ministries.

• Adj Prof Susan Pascoe – an integral member of the Synod’s committee, significant contributor to submissions from Oceania, and a facilitator at the Synod sessions in Rome.
• Mr Terry Fewtrell a member of Concerned Catholics. Terry facilitated our community consultations and wrote submissions to both the Plenary Council and the initial Synod listening phases.
• Dr Patrick McArdle (Chancellor of the Archdiocese) along with Ms Chloe Kelly from the Evangelisation team will discuss outcomes of the recent Archdiocesan Assembly.

The CCCG Forum will:

• Hear from our three speakers.
• Attendees then have the opportunity to workshop the content of the presentations and give feedback from the floor.
• Concerned Catholics will produce a paper summarising YOUR INPUT. This will inform and help shape the composition of the proposed diocesan pastoral council. It is time to put some ‘meat on the bone’ and make the rhetoric real.
• The forum will also afford us the opportunity to inform you of CCCG’s work and to seek new members who feel called to roll up the sleeves and lend a hand to the efforts of Concerned Catholics. We will gladly receive ‘new workers’ in the vineyard to renew and refresh our Church.

Synodality: Now the Rubber Hits the Road

You are warmly invited to Hit the Road with us at Marist College on Thursday 27^th February.

Francis Sullivan OA  (Chair, CCCG)

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