Plan of the 4th Year

The project framework

The forth year of the march on the application of the Maronite Patriarchal Synod

After focusing on the synodal texts during the past three years in order to grasp the maronite concept in it and teach our church of its matters, we suggest the focus, during the fourth year, to follow-up the recommendations and resolutions which came up in the texts in order to launch some practical initiatives and emphasize on the spiritual aspect for the required pastoral renewal.

For this reason we suggest the following framework in four cores:

1-    The first core: The synodal workshops.

The follow-up commission and the General Secretariat follow their work in fulfilling the workshops they launched.

2-    The second core: The legal work.

The follow-up commission and the General Secretariat follow the actions of the legal commission headed by his Excellency Bishop Bechara Rai in transferring the synodal recommendations into legal projects inserted after its validation into the specific code.

3-    The third core: The recommendations and the initiatives.

Once the General Secretariat has placed an inventory of all the synodal recommendations and chose the primary ones, it will place a calendar for monthly gatherings to take place at Bkerke and gather, around the follow-up commission, a sector from the involved sections in the application of the recommendations in practical initiatives.

4-    The fourth core: The internal synodal work in every diocese and monastic order.

Encourage every diocese, monastic order and organization in activating the synod within through the application of some proposed recommendations in the third core; or through the means of communication which they own from magazines and publications and electronic sites.