Living Gospel Inclusivity and Empowerment Now
https://spiritunbounded.org/8-14-oct
I am one of the speakers in this lay-led assembly addressing human and spiritual rights in the Church and world.
My topic will highlight some of the ways Roman Catholic Women Priests are redefining ministry renewing sacramental rites and living gospel equality in inclusive ministries and communities now.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Your lay-led Synodal Assembly
Human Rights in the Emerging Catholic Church News 2 5th Sept, 2023
What's HRECC? Share HERE.
ALL INFO and BOOKING 8 - 14 Oct
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE EMERGING CATHOLIC CHURCH
8 - 14 Oct online all week
13 - 14 Oct live, in-person and online, Rome IT & Bristol UK.
Does our institutional Church seem to have much - if any - understanding of the complexities of your life and mine? Of how we, our families and friends truly live?
“The People of God… do not believe and in many cases do not practice what the magisterium teaches on women, gay rights, obedience, infallibility, human sexuality, contraception, abortion, governance…..” Dr. Mary McAleese, keynote speaker in Rome alongside Sr. Joan Chittister.
Pope Francis brings us the Synod on Synodality in the XVIth Synod in Rome this October. Alongside, we offer you this ecumenical festival of our lay-led Synodal Assembly, with 110+ stories of our complex lives. And our human rights.
They began to realise, as Voice after Voice of our speakers below thanked us for inviting and recording them, that our 110+ shared HRECC stories are groundbreaking. Unprecedented.
The meaning of Synod is literally, walking together. This is the first lay-led, technologically enabled, worldwide Assembly of its kind.
A listening one.
Supported by over 40 reforming and advising Companion organisations, Spirit Unbounded HRECC is being put together and driven by a tiny handful of volunteers. All of us strive for a safe, just and welcoming church. We've no funds. Only our faith in our beloved Holy Spirit, who seems to be opening so many doors to us. We work all hours, hours that should belong to our families and loved ones, to bring you this astounding ecumenical festival of our lived lives as the 99%+ of our Church, in October.
We continue to pray with Pope Francis, who, in April 2021 proposed that we pray for human rights defenders, saying "Defending fundamental human rights takes courage and determination."
Armando Márquez, Co-secretario de SICSAL, El Salvador
MARK GUEVARRA
in 2018 joined the 100+ Catholic Church workers and teachers in Canada and the USA fired by their employer, the Church. Mark loved being a lay minister. He started an LGBTQ+ prayer group. He was sacked.
How do we change the Church's laws, teachings and structures so that our LGBTQ+ siblings can feel safe? Only "a synodal heart," says Mark, will do.
Dr. KOCHURANI ABRAHAM
was a nun for two decades before becoming a lay feminist theologian.
She works to empower the thousands of nuns in India endangered by the spiritual and sexual abuse of clericalism.
Courageous whistleblowers, below, have come under unconscionable pressures. "Jesus Christ was a liberator", says Kochurani, "because he dared to ask critical questions" of a corrupt establishment.
BRIAN DEVLIN
is a priest, a Church whistleblower, an author and a speaker about power abuse in Catholicism. His book, Cardinal Sin, about his and four fellow survivors' journey to unmask the predator Cardinal Keith O'Brien, shows a deeply humane and caring concern for sufferers, as well as a trenchant analysis for structural change in the Church. ‘The celibate, single sex priesthood needs to be dismantled', he says.He describes himself as a Collapsed Catholic. Read his inspiring article this week in the Synodal Times here about "reform-minded Catholics who will not sit quietly and allow this haughty, out of touch, and utterly compromised patrimony to tell us what authentic Church is."
MARTHA MUSONZA HOLMAN
aged twelve, wanted so badly to continue her education that her father sold his bed to pay the fees.
When, as a mother of two young sons, she was arrested and beaten up by Mugabe's government, she made the difficult decision to come to the UK, leaving her boys with her father.
Now settled in Wales with her husband David, she runs their Love Zimbabwe charity with the help of her eldest son and village trustees in her home, Chinamhora. Their focus is on health, food, education and sanitation, and the support of disabled children.
Come to Bristol. Be privileged to meet her and David and hear first-hand about women, power and Zimbabwe.
ALL INFO 8 - 14 Oct
I want to share my recurring call to advocate for survivors of sex trafficking. Five years ago I started a neighborhood group named TASC, Trafficking Awareness and Social Concern. Our objective was to help raise awareness regarding the widespread practice of human exploitation amounting to sexual slavery and to affect legislative change in NC so that Survivors would be less harshly criminalized for prostitution while users go relatively unscathed.
Blessings before our Meal
Loving Creator ,
We pray for your blessings for all those workers in every occupation that we need for human life to flourish on earth-especially those who do not receive a living and just wage for their labors.
We ask your blessings on the work of our hands, ond all those who serve the needs of others especially of the many volunteers -including our dear Lois- who have served our Oakwood Manor community over many years.
We give thanks for each other and for this delicious meal that we will share, Amen.
St. Phoebe: (September 3)
Listening to Phoebe read Romans by Beverly Roberts Gaventa
47 min. Filmed in 2012.
