{"id":24266,"date":"2009-01-20T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/father-julian-carron-carl-ande\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:56:02","slug":"father-julian-carron-carl-ande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/father-julian-carron-carl-ande\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Julián Carrón & Carl Anderson speak about the Synod of Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last evening (19 January) two participants in the October 2008\u00a0Synod of Bishops<\/a>\u00a0spoke about the importance and\u00a0value of knowing Christ personally and intimately. Christ is not an abstraction nor is Christianity an ethic. Merely knowing\u00a0about\u00a0Jesus is moralistic and inconsistent with the true experience of Christinity which says that Jesus Christ is the true, personal\u00a0foundation of life and that He answers the need of heart. Father Juli\u00e1n Carr\u00f3n, President of the\u00a0Fraternity of Communion\u00a0& Liberation<\/a>\u00a0and Mr. Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the\u00a0Knights of Columbus<\/a>\u00a0addressed a crowd of more than 200 people, including the Most Reverend Peter A. Rosazza, an auxiliary bishop of Hartford and Vicar for New Haven, CT. The evening was moderated by Dominican Father Peter John Cameron, Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0Magnificat<\/em>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n

The discussion was built on the theme “The Word’s Face: The Word of God in the Life and Mission of Every Believer.” Saint Mary’s Church Hall (New Haven, CT) was the venue of the evening. This was the same hall that the Venerable Servant of God Michael J. McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus in 1882.<\/p>\n

The discussion emphasized that Christians are not a people of the Book, as is commonly but wrongly asserted,\u00a0but a people who follow a person, the definitive revelation of God, Jesus Christ. Moreover, it was emphasized that Catholics know Christ through sacred Scripture and Tradition. Anderson made a point in saying that he had heard a story of\u00a0someone facing imprisonment who given a choice in taking one book with him and he selected the missal. The reasoning was the missal had both Scripture\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0the Liturgy. Both Anderson and Carr\u00f3n dealt with\u00a0various aspects of\u00a0Dei Verbum<\/a><\/em>, the revolutionary document on Divine Revelation from the Second Vatican Council.\u00a0 Anderson made a point that the Church is missionary in sharing the faith with others and noted that Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have made the effective preaching of Jesus Christ a particularly important aim of the entire Church, each according to his or her place in the Body of Christ.<\/p>\n

Father Juli\u00e1n Carr\u00f3n was an Ordinary member of the Synod meaning that he was a full and voting participant in the Synod as the bishops who are appointed to the gathering. Father Carr\u00f3n’s Synodal intervention can be read\u00a0here<\/a>. Mr. Anderson was an auditor at the Synod meaning that he was a partial participant at the Synod but less important as\u00a0his role was to listen to the work of the Synodal Fathers, to meet experts and those participating in the Synod and to make brief intervention before the full body of the Synod. Both have participated in previous Synods of Bishops.<\/p>\n

Father Carr\u00f3n and Mr. Anderson answered questions fielded from the audience and afterwards met with anyone who presented themselves. Father Carr\u00f3n met very briefly with members of the local members of the Communion & Liberation. The event was an experience of Christ among us.<\/p>\n

The evening was sponsored by Communion & Liberation of Connecticut, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus and\u00a0Saint Mary’s Church & Priory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A brief article and video of the panel discussion can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last evening (19 January) two participants in the October 2008\u00a0Synod of Bishops\u00a0spoke about the importance and\u00a0value of knowing Christ personally and intimately. Christ is not an abstraction nor is Christianity an ethic. Merely knowing\u00a0about\u00a0Jesus is moralistic and inconsistent with the true experience of Christinity which says that Jesus Christ is the true, personal\u00a0foundation of life … Continue reading Father Julián Carrón & Carl Anderson speak about the Synod of Bishops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,21],"tags":[1929,31912,1719,1921,1744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28832,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266\/revisions\/28832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}