Letters from the Synod: Ear to the Ground

Pope Francis leading the prayer service in the Vatican Gardens to open the Amazonian Synod. Image: Christopher Lamb.Pope Francis leading the prayer service in the Vatican Gardens to open the Amazonian Synod. Image: Christopher Lamb.

Letters from the Synod is written by Br Mark O’Connor FMS. Currently in Rome for the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, Br Mark will be providing regular updates and news from the Synod.

Letter Number One.

Dear Friends,

Dom Helder Camara, the Brazilian prophet and mystic of the Church in Latin America, would be rejoicing in heaven as the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region begins in Rome today.

In his poem, Put Your Ear to the Ground, Dom Helder urges us all to shun bitterness and to listen for signs of hope and the Lord’s presence in our daily lives... 

Put Your Ear to the Ground

Put your ear to the ground
and listen,
hurried, worried footsteps,
Bitterness, rebellion.
Hope
hasn’t yet begun.
Listen again.
Put out feelers.
The Lord is there.
He is far less likely
to abandon us
in hardship
than in times of ease.

– Dom Helder Camara

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