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What a big job!

Sunday, October 24, 2021 (13:00)

Already our discussions in the synodal team (todo: write report) had told me that the prophecy I heard after the opening mass might become true. Although, as with any prophecy, you never know in advance how God will implement it.

Yesterday evening I got more confirmations: During the second synodal consultation meeting there were six participants, and five of them turned out to be rather conservative Catholics. After that meeting, on my way home by bus, I stumbled into a call for prayer launched by conservative Catholics:

Let’s pray for the end of this World War against Humanity because, from where we stand, the future doesn’t look good for us, the children and the next generations…

I don’t know the meaning of “this World War against Humanity”, which seems to have a concrete meaning for them. So I cannot join their prayer intention without further consultation meetings.

Oh my God, I am glad that my job is only to report about the situation and not to reconcile these two camps! Reconciling these two camps is the job of the Pope, and I guess that his job is going to last till the end of his life!

How would you reconcile two camps where one of them is decided to not reconcile with the other side?

I hope that these my thoughts help you understand the extent of the Pope’s question when he asks “What steps does the Spirit invite us to take in order to grow in our ‘journeying together?’”

The two camps fail to agree even upon their names! The first camp calls themselves “traditional” and it calls us “liberal”, but I refuse to have my camp labelled “liberal” or “not traditional”! We neither say that everybody is free to interpret the Bible as we want, nor do we speak against traditions.

I feel with Jesus when he says “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” (Luke 12:49-53)

But as the prophecy said: I am not afraid. I am looking forward to meet with plenty of new friends.