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The Continental Assembly in Suva has begun. For the occasion, the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Mauro Grech has sent a video message saying that he is accompanying the assembly with his prayers and conveys Pope Francis’s “fatherly blessing”.
The Cardinal encourages the Assembly participants to grow in “the awareness of the ‘we’ that we are” through the “synodal attitude that is of through dialogue, the only path along which we can grow as a Church. This requires speaking courageously and sincerely, that is, integrating truth and charity with a deep inner freedom”.
These are the conditions, the Cardinal said, that will allow the Continental Assemblies to “be what they must be – an ecclesial exercise of discernment which is based on the conviction that God is at work in the history of the world, and concretely in the events and situations that the People of God live in each continent”.