Reading the Final Synod Document
Part 6: A Feast for All Peoples
Part 6: A Feast for All Peoples
What next for our Church?
Avril Baigent had a great conversation with our guest speaker Archbishop Jason Gordon on the 25th June 2025, exploring the final chapter in the Final Synod Document ‘A Feast for all Peoples’, with fantastic insights into how we can go from theory and discernment, to synodal communion and action.
They spoke about how to consider discipleship not only at key sacramental moments like Holy Communion and Confirmation, but as an evolving spiritual role throughout someone’s entire life, and how the simple four verbs of “relating, listening, discerning and self-emptying” helps turn us towards becoming a synodal church in our communities and contexts amongst many other suggestions - a very rich conversation!
Archbishop Jason Gordon is a Trinidadian Roman Catholic prelate and the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Port of Spain since his appointment in 2017. He was the representative delegate of the Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC) for the Synod on Synodality in October 2024. Archbishop Gordon has published a book in 2024 entitled ‘Reviving Our Caribbean Soul: A Contemplative Synodal Journey’ illustrates how the synod can give a region - often polarised along racial, ethnic, socio-economic and political lines - hope for healing and a renewed vision for communion, mission and participation.
This event is the sixth and final episode in a series of conversations hosted by the School for Synodality and synod experts to reflect on the Final Synod Document in more depth. For 6 weeks, the School for Synodality’s Director Dr Avril Baigent unpacks with guest speakers a different section, reflecting on its theological and practical implications, with time for questions afterwards.