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Towards October 2024                                      – Download

Toward the 2024 Assembly:
Press Release December 12, 2023                – Download

Toward the 2024 Assembly: The Worksheet – Download

XVI Synod Synthesis Report                            – Download

Migrant-Prayer                                                    – Download

Final Document:
Asian Continental Assembly on Synodality  – Download

The Synodal Journey                                         – Download

Ecumenical Vigil of Prayer                               – Download

NEWSLETTER

ISSUE 05 – Download

ISSUE 04 – Download

ISSUE 03 – Download

ISSUE 02 – Download

ISSUE 01 – Download

TRANSLATION IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Final Document: Asian-Continental Assembly on Synodality Korean

XVI Synod Synthesis Report- Korean

Towards-October-2024 – Korean

Synthesis of Instrumentum laboris Chinese(Simplified)

Synthesis of Instrumentum laboris – Chinese (Traditional)

Bangkok document translation- Chinese

Feedback on the Translators’ Workshop by Sherry Tao – Chinese

Study Groups for questions raised in the First Session of the XVI synod – Work Outline – Simplified Chinese

Study Groups for questions raised in the First Session of the XVI synod – Work Outline – Traditional Chinese

Season of Lent & Synodal Conversion –Download Eng & Burmese

Season of Lent and Synodal Conversion – Download Burmese

Letter of the Holy Father Francis to Parish Priests – Simplified Chinese

Letter of the Holy Father Francis to Parish Priests – Traditional Chinese

Mandate of the Holy Father to Parish Priests – Simplified Chinese

Mandate of the Holy Father to Parish Priests- Traditional Chinese

How to be Synodal Church on MissionSimplified Chinese

How to be Synodal Church on Mission – Traditional Chinese

Towards October 2024 – Simplified Chinese

Towards October 2024 – Traditional Chinese

Press Release December 12, 2023 – Simplified Chinese

Press Release December 12, 2023 – Traditional Chinese

Possible Worksheet – Simplified Chinese

Possible Worksheet – Traditional Chinese 

Intervention of Pope Francis in the Synod on Synodality – Download-Chinese

Towards October 2024 – Simplified Chinese

Towards October 2024 – Traditional Chinese

Chronicle of the Synodal Process 2021-2024 – Simplified Chinese

Chronicle of the Synodal Process 2021-2024 – Traditional Chinese

XVI Synod Synthesis Report – Burmese (Myanmar)

XVI Synod Synthesis Report – Simplified Chinese 

XVI Synod Synthesis Report – Traditional Chinese

Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-English  
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Japanese 
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Myanmar
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Tamil
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Chinese
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Malay
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Tetuam (Timor Leste)
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download- Bahasa Indonesia
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Bengali

 

Holy Father’s homily of the opening Mass of the SynodBurmese(Myanmar) , Chinese

Homily of Card Charles Bo for the Mass at the Synod – Chinese 

TRANSLATION IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Season of Lent & Synodal Conversion –Download Eng & Burmese

Season of Lent and Synodal Conversion – Download Burmese

Letter of the Holy Father Francis to Parish Priests – Simplified Chinese

Letter of the Holy Father Francis to Parish Priests – Traditional Chinese

Press Release December 12, 2023 – Simplified Chinese

Press Release December 12, 2023 – Traditional Chinese

Possible Worksheet – Simplified Chinese

Possible Worksheet – Traditional Chinese 

Intervention of Pope Francis in the Synod on Synodality – Download-Chinese

Towards October 2024 – Simplified Chinese

Towards October 2024 – Traditional Chinese

Chronicle of the Synodal Process 2021-2024 – Simplified Chinese

Chronicle of the Synodal Process 2021-2024 – Traditional Chinese

XVI Synod Synthesis Report – Burmese (Myanmar)

XVI Synod Synthesis Report – Simplified Chinese 

XVI Synod Synthesis Report – Traditional Chinese

Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-English  
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Japanese 
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Myanmar
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Tamil
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Chinese
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Malay
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Tetuam (Timor Leste)
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download- Bahasa Indonesia
Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God Download-Bengali

 

Holy Father’s homily of the opening Mass of the SynodBurmese(Myanmar) , Chinese

Homily of Card Charles Bo for the Mass at the Synod – Chinese 

What is Instrumentum Laboris?

As the Latin word suggests, the IL is first and foremost a working tool for the participants in the work of the first session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. In this sense, the IL does not suggest answers, but notes, articulates some insights that have emerged in the process, opens up questions and invites further study.

It is therefore also a document for the discernment of the participants in the October 2023 Assembly. In fact, unlike previous synods for which the IL was a document to be amended, improved, in order to arrive at a new document, the current IL is primarily aimed at and in support of the assembly’s methodology. Although it is the complete fruit of the discernment made from the documents already written, the reading and reflection of the IL can be complemented by the reading of the Preparatory Document, the national syntheses, the Continental Stage Working Document and the seven documents of the Continental Assemblies without forgetting the one of the Digital Synod.

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Instrumentum Laboris

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Conversation in the Spirit

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Methodology

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October 2024 Roadmap

Simplified Chinese

October 2024 Roadmap

Traditional Chinese

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