Book Club: Discernment and mission with Dr Estela Padilla
Thank you to all who joined us this week for the latest installment of our Book Club, as we heard from this week’s guest speaker Dr Estela Padilla as we explored Part 3 of the Final Synod Document.
Avril Baigent and Dr Estela discussed the transformative capacity of healthy discernment, seeing how contextual approaches helps the gospel enter daily life as an “energy of hope”, and how synodal decision-making is “not based in a power structure, but a mission structure”. Her experiences of synodality in the Philippines highlighted new perspectives on how we can approach this chapter, called the ‘Conversion of Processes’.
This event is the third 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.