Synod 2021 - 2023: For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission. 

The Catholic Leamington Walking Together Team have now completed their task of producing a synod report outlining Catholic Leamington's dreams for our Church.

This report has been submitted to our diocese and is available here for all to read, particularly for our parishioners. 

Click on a blue link below to download a pdf file:
Catholic Leamington Synod Report without Appendices - probably the most helpful file which can be printed as an A5 booklet.
Just to download the Appendices: Catholic Leamington Synod Report Appendices.

For the full report: Catholic Leamington Synod Report with Appendices.

The diocese asked for parish synod meetings of Young Adults (aged 16-29yrs) and for their discernments to be separately reported, click here to download the discerned feedback from their meeting including the 10 Young Adult questionnaires completed. 

For the Diocesan Synthesis i.e. Diocesan Synod Report click here.

Click here to email SynodLeamington@gmail.com to send a message to our Walking Together Team.    

A prayer asking the Holy Spirit to guide us
We stand before You, Holy Spirit, as we gather together in Your name.
With You alone to guide us, make Yourself at home in our hearts.
Teach us the way we must go and how we are to pursue it.
We are weak and sinful; do not let us promote disorder.
Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path nor partiality influence our actions.
Let us find in You our unity so that we may journey together to eternal life
and not stray from the way of truth and what is right.
All this we ask of You who are at work in every place and time,
​in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever. Amen

What is Synodality (Walking together)?  
A consultation with the baptised, a dialogue, to find consensus.
What is a Synod? 
A gathering of bishops to listen to the Holy Spirit with a desire to renew the Church, 
What is the desired outcome? 
A Church able to evangelise more effectively in our contemporary world.
Communion, participation, mission?
These are called Pillars. We are God's community, engaging with one another to strengthen and prepare us for sharing our faith and values with others.
What is the Synod timeframe? 
From October 2021 to October 2023.
How will it involve the Church? 
Pope Francis asks us to listen, reflect and discern, at a parish, diocesan, national and international level, guided by the process of Ignatian spirituality, to arrive at a consensus view. 
Click here for the Diocesan website.

Click here for our Synod Special leaflet, an introduction to Walking Together containing the ten Areas for Reflection.

Click here for our Synod Special 2 leaflet, with meeting details and the Questions each meeting will cover.

Click here for the Synod Form (questionnaire) as a pdf document

How is Catholic Leamington joining in?

• With prayer saying the Synod Prayer and asking the Holy Spirit to be with us and guide us on this journey.
• By having a 10-person Walking Together' team, to help develop our parish response to the invitation of Pope Francis to Walk Together.
• Joining in meetings​. Held in January, and early  February. The type of event, dates and times were published here in a Synod Special 2 publication.
• Reflecting on the ten suggested areas to explore.
• Listening to others, thinking about what is positive in our faith and discussing our barriers to sharing it. 
• After extended prayer and reflection, suggesting how we as church should be in the future.
• If we cannot attend a meeting, completing a Synod Form and encouraging others to do so. 

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All were invited to complete and submit a Synod Form; the responses were incorporated into our synod report.

All responses were treated with the utmost confidentiality by the small team who will read the forms, discerned the messages and reported to the bishops.
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Thank you for looking at this site and for any response you have made to this synodal process.
​If you have any questions please email SynodLeamington@gmail.com

This web page and content were designed by the Catholic Leamington 'Walking Together' team. Catholic Leamington is St Joseph's Church in Whitnash, Our Lady's Church in Lillington, and St Peter's Church in Leamington Spa working together.