Thousands of Catholics have attended the Delhi archdiocesan consultation meetings to prepare for the Rome Synod that began more than six months ago.
While Jesuit Father Stanislaus Alla, a theology professor, finds the process “truly historic,” Abp Anil J Couto of Delhi, who initiated it, says the Church in the archdiocese will not be the same after the exercise ends.
Father Alla, who teaches in Delhi’s Vidyajyoti College of Theology, has read through hundreds of pages of reports from various groups in the archdiocese and drafted the “Diocesan Syn-thesis” with his colleague, Presentation Sister Shalini Mulackal.
The latest archdiocesan Pre-Synodal meeting at the cathedral campus in New Delhi was attend-ed by 8-month-old Ayston Jez and 85-year-old Emeritus Abp Vincent Concessao of Delhi among more than 200 participants.
Archbishop Couto opened the April 29-May 1 with a prayer and inaugural address. Auxiliary Bishop Deepak Tauro of Delhi presented an overview of the proceedings. The meeting ended with a Mass on May 2.
8-month-old Ayston Jez with Leena Sunny, a Core Committee member, and Archbishop Anil Couto of DelhiThe archdiocese launched the Synodal process October 17, 2021, with a Mass led by Archbishop Couto.