Homily 26.11.23 by Frank Brennan 6

On this feast of the Solemnity of Christ the King, our Australian bishops have published a letter to us all reflecting on last year’s plenary council in Sydney and this year’s session of the Synod in Rome. They have said: ‘Synodality means “walking together”. It means renewing structures and processes by which all the Baptised might participate in a shared mission to bring the Good News of the Lord to a society hungry for the Word of Life. This Mission is not just for some, but for all Christ’s Faithful.’ Archbishop Mark Coleridge is fond of saying that synodality is no longer just for bishops some of the time, but for bishops all of the time, and in fact, for all of us all of the time. Australia had the third largest national representation at the recent session of the synod. That was ten times the representation we could have expected in proportion to our numbers in the pews.