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    • What's a Synod?
      The Synod at St. Ignatius

      In October, Pope Francis called upon the whole Church, throughout the world, to participate in a three-year- journey to discern where the Holy Spirit might be calling us in the future. In calling this Synod (the name comes from a Greek word for “walking together”), Francis has asked every diocese and Catholic community in the world to listen to the People of God, and to find ways to bring that listening forward, so that the gathering of the world’s bishops might hear. This page is your hub for all things Synod happening now and throughout the year, including activities here at the Parish and a survey from the Archdiocese.

    • "By walking together, and together reflecting on the journey made, the Church will be able to learn from what it will experience which processes can help it to live communion, to achieve participation, to open itself to mission." - Pope Francis

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    • Discerning the Spirit 
      the synod at St. Ignatius 

      While the Archdiocesan survey offers a chance to grab a snapshot of the Church in San Francisco, our Jesuit spiritual heritage makes us want to go deeper by listening to the experiences, reflections, and desires of our community. Therefore, St. Ignatius Parish will offer more than the Archdiocesan survey. Using Ignatian methodology and the Preparatory Document of the Synod (https://www.synod.va/en/news/preparatory-document.html), St. Ignatius will offer a series of gatherings (two for each session, so that more people may participate). In these gatherings, parishioners, former parishioners, and all people of good will and desire will be invited to discuss and respond to the call of Francis. 

      Keeping in mind the Ignatian process of Experience, Reflection, and Action, our first session will ask participants to share positive and negative experiences of “walking together” in the Church. What experiences do you recall that fostered in you a sense of communion, or participation, or mission? What experiences had the opposite effect? Thus beginning with our particular stories, in the second session, we will seek to explore the feelings that are evoked by hearing one another’s experiences, as a way of identifying the movements of the spirit. What joys or sorrows, what strengths or hurts arise from reflecting on what you have heard? Where do you sense the good spirit at work, and where the “enemy of our human nature”? Finally, in session three, we will take our reflections to the next step, completing our discernment by a call to action. What would we ask of the leadership of the Church going forward? What needs to be strengthened, and what reformed? These conclusions, formed into a single document, will then be passed on to become part of the preparatory material for the Synod that will assemble in Rome next year.

      In the call to Synod, Pope Francis is seeking to do nothing less than transform the way the Church deliberates and listens to the Holy Spirit. Furthering the work of Vatican II, he asks us to be the voice of the People of God, as is our shared mission, and to go beyond an outmoded model of “pay, pray, and obey.” Opening the doors to the Spirit, Francis calls on us to respond—but we cannot succeed unless all of us take up our roles and participate. The Church is ours, and we are the Church, but only if we let our voices be heard.

      Learn more below in a special introduction by Fr. John Whitney, S.J.

      The Synod on Synodality: An Introduction

      • The Synod at the Vatican

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    • The Synod in the Archdiocese of San Francisco

      • The Archdiocese of San Francisco, in response to the Pope’s call, has engaged The Catholic Leadership Institute to offer its Disciple Maker Index to all members of the Church. This nationally recognized survey—which can be taken in just a few minutes—provides input into the state of each parish, and helps create a baseline for further discussion in the engagement sessions the Archdiocese is planning later in the year. It is very important, and helpful both for the Synod and for our better understanding of our parish and Church, for all members of St. Ignatius to take this survey before the deadline of 13 February. In addition to the survey, the Archdiocese of San Francisco is now also offering listening sessions for the Synod, facilitated by the Catholic Leadership Institute. 

        Take the Survey
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      • Unpacking the Synod 

        Fr. John Whitney, SJ, discusses the current Synod in the Church and its implications for our life as Catholics on Zoom. What is a Synod? How will this Synod serve the life of the Church? How will this help the Church better minister to the faithful?

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