BANGKOK (SE): The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India [CCBI] released the Indian edition of How to be a Missionary Synodal Church, the Instrumentum Laboris [working document] on August 6. The document is for the second session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly—the Synod on Synodality—scheduled to take place from October 2 to 27 in Rome.
Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrão, president of the CCBI, presented the book during the Asian Synodal Assembly at the Baan Phu Waan Pastoral Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.
The event on August 6 was attended by Charles Maung Cardinal Bo, archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar; Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J. of Hong Kong; Oswald Cardinal Gracias, archbishop of Bombay and Father Stephen Alathara, deputy secretary general of the CCBI.
The Instrumentum Laboris is designed to guide the work of the upcoming synod. It is structured into three parts: the first delves into the essential relationships within the Church—between God, the faithful, and different Churches; the second focuses on pathways and communal discernment to ensure active participation from all members; and the third discusses the environments where these relationships and pathways are actualised.
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