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Retrieving Eastern Sobornicity for the Western Church: The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirt and Synodality

Abstract

“If there is no Holy Spirit, there is no Synod,” Pope Francis noted in his allocution opening the ‘Synod on synodality.’  Can bringing the Slavonic concept of «sobornicity» into conversation with the «sacrum septenarium» help the Church realize the Pentecostal-Pneumatological dimension of synodality?  This presentation will argue that the effects Christ’s sevenfold anointing with respect to His two wills is paradigmatic for ‘being synodal’ and that the individual believer’s own ‘synodality’ with the indwelling Trinity is foundational for rediscovering the Church’s intrinsically synodal structure and for living out the mystery of Sobornost.

About the Presenter

Fr Matthew-Anthony Hysell OP is a priest of the Archdiocese of Edmonton and a professed brother in the Dominican Priestly Fraternity. After obtaining his B.A. in philosophy (City University of New York—Hunter College) and his M.A. in theology (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley), he moved to Edmonton to obtain an M.Th. (Newman Theological College). After initial formation at St Joseph Seminary, he was ordained in 2012 and spent six years in parish ministry before being sent to Dominican University College in Ottawa for doctoral studies, specializing in St Thomas Aquinas’ doctrine of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the soul of Christ. He currently lectures in dogmatic theology at Newman Theological College and serves as administrator of St Emeric Catholic Hungarian Parish and of St Mark’s Catholic Community of the Deaf as well as National Chaplain of the International Catholic Deaf Association—Canadian Section.