Accra, 02 December, 2025 / 9:31 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) have reflected on the relationship between the Advent Season and Synodality, noting that in the country’s context, the Advent resonates deeply with the Church’s ongoing synodal journey.
In their Advent Message dated Friday, November 28, the Catholic Bishops explain that Synodality is not “an administrative slogan but a spiritual disposition” that “calls for courageous listening, patient dialogue, and communal discernment.”
“In a society marked by injustice, inequality and fragile social trust, the synodal path becomes an instrument of justice and peace,” the Bishops say, and add “It forms a moral imagination capable of resisting corruption, strengthening solidarity and protecting the vulnerable.”
GCBC members lament that findings from Justice and Peace structures across West African nations show that “participatory approaches build community trust and reduce conflict significantly, in some areas by nearly a third over the past decade.”
These patterns, they say in the message that their President, Bishop Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi of Sunyani Diocese, signed, “suggest that when the Church models synodality, she becomes a leaven for national transformation.”
