[sinod] Impressions after the first sinoditalgu

[Luc Saffre]

Dear sinoditalgulised,

here are (some of) my impressions after the first meeting of the 
sinoditalgutiim 
<https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/about/#term-sinoditalgutiim>. 
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.

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.

The expected final outcome of the work of this team is a document that 
has the public consent of at least /two members from different 
confessions/ and can be submitted as /our report/ to the sinoditiim 
<https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/about/#term-sinoditiim> 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.

At the moment I am the /team leader/, the /secretary/ and the /editor of 
our report/. That’s a case of /accumulation of offices/, which is 
suboptimal but acceptable in a small team. Let me know if you feel 
called to become our leader, secretary or editor.

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 GitLab project 
<https://gitlab.com/sinod2023/www>. The latter is a /printable document/ 
produced using LibreOffice without a detailed history of every change, I 
just manually log an overview of the different versions (in Change 
history <https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/changes/>).

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 CC BY-ND license 
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/> and distribute it to 
anybody who is interested.

It seems clear that I must try to find more members from other 
denominations (Orthodox, other Protestants than Lutherans, …)

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?

I changed the page First meeting of the sinoditalgutiim 
<https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/1/> from future tense to past 
tense and started a new page Second meeting of the sinoditalgutiim 
<https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/sc/talgud/2/>. Our /instrumentum laboris/ 
didn’t have a version number (its filename was simply |20220216.odt|), 
but actually it was version 10 of “my draft”. I made changes on my 
website to Synodality <https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/defs/synodality/>.

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.

I realized (already since 2022-02-15 
<https://hw.saffre-rumma.net/blog/2022/0215_1200/>) 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.

Luc
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