Beginning March 12, 2025, join Sister Gill Goulding, CJ, for a series of engaging tea-time conversations over Lent, delving into the theological foundations of the 2023-24 Synod on Synodality and how we can carry forward the synodal journey beyond the October 2024 session. With her tea in hand, Sister Gill will guide participants through the Synod’s roots in Vatican II, explore the key themes of recent Synodal Assemblies, and invite reflection on how we, as the body of Christ and a synodal Church, can embrace the synodal process in our everyday lives.
Week 1: A Re-appropriation of Vatican II
Week 2: The Voices of the People of God
Week 3: Synodal Assemblies I & II and their key questions
Week 4: The 21st Century Synodal Church
Week 5: How do we continue the process?
About the instructor: Sister Gill Goulding is a sister of the Congregatio Jesu (founded in 1609 by the Venerable Mary Ward) and a professor of Systematic Theology and Spirituality in the Regis St. Michael's Faculty of Theology. She emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 2001. In 2012 she was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to be a theological expert at the Synod on the New Evangelization for the transmission of the Christian Faith. She is a member of the Theological Commission of the Conference of Religious in Canada and by appointment of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops a member of the Faith and Witness Commission (Theological Commission) of the Canadian Council of Churches. Sr. Gill is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Von Hugel Institute, at St. Edmund’s College University of Cambridge, UK. In 2021 Sr. Gill was appointed by Cardinal Grech to the Theological Commission of the Synod 2021-2024. Alongside her work as a theologian she undertakes a ministry of spiritual direction and retreat work. Sr. Gill has for many years given the 30 days Spiritual Exercises, to diocesan priests each Summer at the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University.
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