The synodal life of the Church is essentially oriented towards mission: it is “the sign and instrument of intimate union with God and of unity for the whole human race” (Lumen Gentium, 1), until the day when God will be “all in all” (1 Cor 15:28). The young, open to the Spirit, can help the Church to make the paschal transition of going out “from ‘I’ understood in a self-centred way to the ecclesial ‘we’, where every ‘I’, clothed in Christ (cf. Gal 3:27), lives and journeys with his or her brothers and sisters as a responsible and active agent of the one mission of the People of God” (International Theological Commission, Synodality in the life and mission of the Church, 2 March 2018, 107). Under the impulse of the Spirit and the guidance of the bishops, the same transition must take place for the Christian community, called to move away from the self-referentiality of the ‘I’ of self-preservation towards serving the building of a ‘we’ that is inclusive vis-à-vis the whole human family and the whole of creation.
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