The Synod of Bishops is coming up – commencing in Rome on October 5.
(The last Synod was on the topic of the Eucharist, in the fall of ’05)
Here’s the Vatican webpage for the Synod, with all of the preparatory documents.
And here is a good page that’s being published by Ascension Press ScriptureSynod.com. Good resources, promises to be continually updated. Here’s the FAQ page, for example:
The Synod proposes to:
- reverently contemplate this mystery of the Word, God’s greatest gift, to render thanks for it, to meditate upon it and to proclaim it to all members of the Church and all people of good will.
- spread and strengthen encounters with the Word of God by thoroughly examining its doctrinal underpinnings and allowing them to show the manner in which this is to be done
- help the faithful understand what the Bible is, why it is there, how beneficial it is to the faith and how to use it properly and apply it to everyday life
- renew listening to the Word of God, in the liturgy and catechesis, specifically through lectio divina, duly adapted to various circumstances; and to offer a Word of consolation and hope to the poor of the world.
- set forth the intrinsic connection between the Eucharist and the Word of God, since the Church must receive nourishment from the one “bread of life from the table of both God’s word and Christ’s body.”
This is the Synod’s underlying purpose and primary goal, namely, to fully encounter the Word of God in Jesus the Lord, present in the Sacred Scriptures and the Eucharist. ~Lineamenta