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<p>Dear sinoditalgulised,</p>
<p>here are (some of) my impressions after the first meeting of the
<a class="reference internal"
href="https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/about/#term-sinoditalgutiim"><span
class="xref std std-term">sinoditalgutiim</span></a>. Thanks
be to God for this inspiring and encouraging
meeting! Thanks to those who prayed for us, thanks to those who
participated in
person, thanks to the Sisters of the Pirita convent who accepted
us as their
guests.</p>
<p>I currently see the sinoditalgutiim as a group of diverse people
who love the
Church, feel co-responsible and are not afraid of speaking boldly.</p>
The expected final outcome of the work of this team is a document
that has the
public consent of at least <em>two members from different
confessions</em> and can be
submitted as <em>our report</em> to the <a class="reference
internal"
href="https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/about/#term-sinoditiim"><span
class="xref std std-term">sinoditiim</span></a> on March 30. It
is not
needed that all members publicly consent to our report. Those who
don’t consent
publicly may consent privately, remain undecided or even explicitly
disagree
with the document (and I plan to publish these numbers as part of
our report).
When I say “we” (or “our” or “us”) in my draft of the printable
document, I
express what I hope to become the common position of those who are
going to sign
this document on March 30.
<p>At the moment I am the <em>team leader</em>, the <em>secretary</em>
and the <em>editor of our
report</em>. That’s a case of <em>accumulation of offices</em>,
which is suboptimal but
acceptable in a small team. Let me know if you feel called to
become our leader,
secretary or editor.</p>
<p>Note the technical difference between “my website” and “my draft
for our
report”. The former is made using Sphinx and every (committed)
change is visible
in the history of the <a class="reference external"
href="https://gitlab.com/sinod2023/www">GitLab project</a>. The
latter is a <em>printable document</em> produced using
LibreOffice without a detailed
history of every change, I just manually log an overview of the
different
versions (in <a class="reference internal"
href="https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/changes/"><span class="doc">Change
history</span></a>).</p>
<p>We do not yet know how long our report will be. It might become
much longer than
10 pages. Or maybe the opposite. Whom do we want to read it? Only
the fathers
of the Synod in Rome? I can imagine that we will eventually
publish it as a pdf
document under a <a class="reference external"
href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/">CC BY-ND
license</a> and distribute it to
anybody who is interested.</p>
<p>It seems clear that I must try to find more members from other
denominations
(Orthodox, other Protestants than Lutherans, …)</p>
<p>There are many things in version 10 we didn’t didn’t have time to
speak about.
The title of version 10 was “Towards a synodal church”, which is
just one of
several ideas. We should speak about the title. Any other
suggestions?</p>
<p>I changed the page <a class="reference internal"
href="https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/1/"><span
class="doc">First meeting of the sinoditalgutiim</span></a>
from future tense to past tense and
started a new page <a class="reference internal"
href="https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/2/"><span
class="doc">Second meeting of the sinoditalgutiim</span></a>.
Our <em>instrumentum laboris</em> didn’t have a
version number (its filename was simply <code class="file
docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">20220216.odt</span></code>),
but actually it
was version 10 of “my draft”. I made changes on my website to
<a class="reference internal"
href="https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/defs/synodality/"><span
class="doc">Synodality</span></a>.</p>
<p>I still wait for more feedback on version 10, but I also started
to work on a
version 11 (which is currently “under development” or “not
released”). It seems
that I should reintroduce my “vision of the naked Pope Francis”
because it is
important. But I must somehow make clear that it is “just a
vision” and that we
don’t expect it to become true as such.</p>
<p>I realized (already since <a class="reference internal"
href="https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/blog/2022/0215_1200/"><span
class="doc">2022-02-15</span></a>) that my differentiation
between “to know” and “to believe” needs a fundamental revision.
Both terms
actually describe the same concept. Their only difference is how
open you are
for doubts. When somebody says “I know”, then it actually just
means “I believe
and refuse to discuss about this”. The truth is what remains true
(or real) even
if we fail to believe or know it.</p>
Luc<br>
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