Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I'm a Dominican friar of the

province of St Joseph, and this is Pines of Aquinas. In this episode I'd like to

talk a little bit about the Synod. So the Synod on Synodality. You've probably heard

some things about the Synod, but there have been developments of late.

So we had the first plenary session this past month, and then there was a letter written to the people of God,

and then there was a summary report circulated.

So we'll have to wait for the second plenary session in October of next year for the final report and then for whatever publication follows thereupon.

But at present, we already have things to, yeah, to consider, to judge and to incorporate into our lives.

Specifically, as we continue to discern or to distinguish what it means for us to be the body of Christ,

what it means for us to be the church. And so you have various proposals or various expressions

of this question in the Synod and its conversations.

But I think that we need to be careful not just to think with the mind of the world, which

can be a temptation because a lot of the issues that are raised are also being raised by

our secular contemporaries and it's it can be a subtle temptation just to think with the

mind of the world so we want to think with the mind of Christ to be transformed by

the renewal of our minds.

And insofar as that's the goal, I think that we need to be

careful about the principles and the arguments that we advance in the

service of this type of discourse.

So let's think about what it means to be the church

according to the mind of Christ in light of the sentence findings. Here we go.

Okay, so one thing I was struck by in, specifically in the letter was this call to listen to everyone and especially to the most poor.

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