Rome has been invaded by Bishops and experts from around the world to participate in what is called an Ordinary Synod. The word “synod” is derived from two Greek words syn meaning “together” and hodos meaning “road” or “way”. One way to describe a synod is the coming together of the Church on its way to God.
This Synod is anything but ordinary. It is focused on the "New Evangelization" and how the Church can reenergize the faith of the baptized.
The Church has to deal with the practical problem that many have abandoned the faith. What will help the Church to reach those who have left their faith behind or even those who's faith has grown luke warm?
"Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses. [...] It is therefore primarily by her conduct and by her life that the Church will evangelize the world, in other words, by her living witness of fidelity to the Lord Jesus, by her witness of poverty and detachment, and by her witness of freedom in the face of the powers of this world, in short, the witness of sanctity."
www.vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/documents/rc_synod_doc_20110202_lineamenta-xiii assembly_en.html#PREFACE
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