Warning

This website is work in progress. I sent you a link to it because I ask you for your feedback. Please don’t share the link with anybody else until this warning has been removed. Luc.

My Synodal Church

This website will describe how I listened and then wrote down what Estonia has to say at the Synod.

My job as the Diocesan Contact Person is to ask “all baptized” in Estonia a few questions, to collect their answers, and then to synthesize these answers into a document of not more than ten pages. I do this job with the help of the synodal core team and under authority of the Bishop. Together with this team we made a website, sinod, which documents the result of our common work. I think that we did a good job so far.

The present website –I currently call it msc (for My Synodal Church)– goes beyond what the Bishop asked me to do. It is my private project. I am trying to realize a vision: is it possible to also explain to a general public how we did this job. Describing how you do a job is much more work than actually doing it. The Apostolic Administration of Estonia has no resources for this.

Why do I go beyond what the Bishop asks me to do? Because I consider it an important part of my work as the Diocesan Contact Person. I believe that this is what they call co-responsibility. Co-responsibility is when you do more than the bare instructions.

I didn’t yet show this website to the Bishop or the core team. I am afraid of their reaction. I could fully understand if they would tell me “Luc that’s your project, don’t ask us to actively help you with this.” That would be okay for me. But I would have a problem if they consider this website a disrupt of their privacy. I don’t know what I would do if they say this. We will see.

My hopes are bigger than my fears. I hope that this website might even become the actual result of our common work, an appendix to our ten-page synthesis. I hope that this website will be a relevant input to the Synod, an outstanding contribution to the Synodal Church vision of Pope Francis.

Some content on this website is taken over from my Human World website because I have been pregnant with these thoughts for years.

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How to read this website

I recommend that you read this website like a printed book:

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Chapter XII

Keep in mind that this website is work in progress. When you hit the “Refresh” button of your browser, it might happen that the page content changes because I have been working on it while you were reading it.

Thanks

Thanks to Stiiv who was the first to see this website, and who advised and encouraged me since then.

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