“[Synodal] Transformation. . .is an internal process, an interior journey that shifts the meaning and purpose of our lives. It shifts the patterns and practices of our lives and the structures that support them,” said Sr. Julie Peters to the bishops of the Antilles Episcopal Conference 68th Annual Plenary Meeting in Nassau, Bahamas. Sr. Julie continued to say that this transformation requires the creation of a psychologically safe space where “we feel valued for who we really are– our unique self – so that we as well as others can thrive. . . hear and harness diverse perspectives. . .” This safe space must be created among the bishops, clergy, religious, and the People of God.
Through this experience, the bishops listened intently to Bishop Clyde Harvey speaking about the unfolding situation in the Grenadian Church. They expressed solidarity with the People of God of Grenada and its shepherd and offered continued support and prayer to bring healing and reconciliation.
In a spirit of synodality, the bishops discerned the urgency to address four pastoral issues in the regional Church: Evangelisation and Discipleship Formation, Catholic Education, Domestic Church, and vocation. These pastoral matters will require further consideration in dialogue with the People of God.
In solidarity with the Haitian Church, the bishops discussed Haiti’s unstable socio-economic and political situation. They pledged to continue their prayerful and material support to the bishops and people of Haiti. To this end, each diocese of the AEC will organise a collection to assist the Church financially in its pastoral work in Haiti.
Concluding the meeting, the bishops unanimously agreed to shift the synod process to every level of the regional Church by calling a regional synod that would begin in the families, parishes, and dioceses and conclude with an AEC regional Synod. Taking the synodal experience of the Universal (Global) Church, the AEC Synod will be launched in the Jubilee year 2025.
The bishops thank the many people who accompanied us with prayer during our meeting.
All of you should be married and have children. How is it that priests are called father and have not fathered any children?These colonial laws should be challenged by the people and these men should be dismantled. They have too much control over the masses. Start thinking straight, my people and remove the mote from your eyes.
These guys still beleive they can fool people, they have black guys up front making people to beleive ever thing is ok we will never forget what they did to black people kill them by the millions enslave them and fool them with religion . When the story broke out a few years ago a hold bunch of these guys were preying on little boys a few went to jail and even commit suicide that’s a fact it happen where i live ,thats the uniform of the ku klux klan .
So call bishop Malazire the biggest hypocrite was in dominica when skerrit send his goons into salisbury and tear gas a sleeping community, and the shooting of a gentle man that was visiting his wife and family from Alaska, and the hypocrite stayed silent ,and the most disappointing thing is, salisbury is a catholic community .
A magua Sa .
Bunch of hypocrites .
When is Dominica going to have a Bishop
Ebeh, look girlie men(s) for… jesus.
They finally let the Black ones be priests who never read of the atrocities of the catholic Jesuit priests and enslavement of mankind in the name of their god.
The Jesuits that owned Georgetown University is one of those in the U.S that recently gave preferential admission to 4-thousand descendents of 242 African people the church enslaved and sold to pay bills. Guilt: they also setup a $100mil fund for reparations to these poor people they tortured in the name of their god.. . jesus.
A jesus that will never save African people. One of the slave ships was called the good ship Jesus. While the Africans were being taken to the Caribbean, their enslavers were having church on deck. A planned, ruthless, criminal and violent attack on innocent lives. That’s why I do not understand, to this day, why African people are still calling on a European god.