QUESTION:
What impact does the Synod have for normal Catholics in their everyday lives?

• ANSWER: H.E. Jean-Claude Cardinal Hollerich, S.J.
  Archbishop of Luxembourg and General Relator of the Synod of Bishops

They will probably not see a change immediately, because chan-ges need time, and the Holy Spirit needs time because he has to convert our hearts. That normally takes time because we put resistance. But they will see with time a Church where they count, whe-re they are important, where their talents, their gifts, their life experience, are important because they belong to the people of the baptized. They belong to the holy people of God, and by their ba-ptism and confirma-tion, they have received a mission. And this mi-ssion, we fulfil it toge-ther as a Church, local community, small community, parish, dio-cese, and beyond.
(Vatican News)