April 10.  Friday of Easter week. SEE.     Mom who loved picnics shared some thoughts. “It must have been a very strange breakfast picnic there on the shore of the sea of Tiberias. The disciples were first skeptical about going out again in their boat after having caught nothing all night. Even at the end when they came with their 153 fish and Jesus was cooking breakfast for them they seemed uncertain.  I wonder who said what in the end. I also sometimes don’t know what to say to Jesus. Does anyone else feel like that?   Maybe this synodality that is talked about these days will help us.” Dad explained, “Synodality means journeying together as the People of God, or if you like the Family of God. . It indicates a way of listening to each individual person, speaking openly as a member of the Church, to understand how God might be speaking to all of us. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, calling us and leading us to “communion, participation, mission.”

JUDGE. Scripture:  Read the passage of another encounter with Jesus as the risen Lord. John 21:1-14 They went out in the boat but that night they caught nothing. As day was breaking Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.  He said to them, cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some fish.”  So they cast it and then they were not able to haul it in.   Pope Francis.  St Francis helps us to see that an integral ecology calls for openness to categories which transcend the language of mathematics and biology, and take us to the heart of what it is to be human.  Just as happens when we fall in love with someone, whenever he would gaze at the sun, the moon or the smallest of animals he burst into song, drawing all other creatures into his praise, just as if they were endowed with reason. LS 11. Pope Leo:  At times Christian movements or groups have arisen which show little or no interest in the common good of society and in particular the protection and advancement of its most vulnerable and disadvantaged members. We must never forget that religion cannot be limited to the private sphere.  DT 111.  Reflect, share, pray, act.  find out more and try to get involved in the journey of synodality in your family and you own area.