Vatican City, Jul 6, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The Vatican today, released a synopsis of the working document of the "Instrumentum laboris" for the Eleventh Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will explore the theme, “The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church."
The upcoming Synod is scheduled to be held in the Vatican from October 2 to 23, 2005. Secretary General, Archbishop Nikola Eterovicand, and under-secretary Msgr. Fortunato Frezza, of the Synod of Bishops presented the document in the Holy See Press office this morning.
A Vatican press release explained that the Instrumentum laboris is made up of a preface, an introduction, four sections each divided into two chapters, and a conclusion. It was compiled based on responses to the "Lineamenta" sent by the secretariat of the Synod of Bishops to episcopal conferences, Eastern Catholic Churches, dicasteries of the Roman Curia and the Union of Superiors General.
The preface of the new document states that, "The question of great pastoral concern, episcopal responsibility and prophetic vision is to see how (the) rich patrimony of faith can be implemented in the Catholic Church ... in the initial years of the third millennium of Christianity and beyond."