” ” "The purpose of the Synod is mainly about ministry and mission. It is about listening to the Word of God to discern how the Spirit and the Church are trying to respond to the gift of the Word incarnate through the love for the Holy Scripture and the proclamation of the Kingdom of God to all humanity," said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, general speaker at the bishops’ Synod, in his opening address (« Relatio ante disceptationem »). ” “"The Synod will provide guidelines for ministry to ‘strengthen the encounter with the Word of God as source of life’ and will take the stock both of the reception of the II Vatican Council on the Word of God and of the connections with the ecclesiological renewal, ecumenism and interreligious and international dialogue," he explained. Then the Cardinal added that "thanks to the trinitarian and Christ-centred vision of the II Vatican Council, the Church’s consciousness of her Mistery and mission was renewed. The Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium and the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes are developing an ecclesiology of communion based on a new concept of Revelation. In this way they paved the way for an encounter and a more profound dialogue between God who is calling and his people who are answering." ” “
