{"id":14151,"date":"2017-06-01T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holyfamilysparta-org.azurewebsites.net\/?page_id=14151"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T20:15:57","slug":"oct-2018-synod-on-young-people-the-faith-and-vocational-discernment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/?page_id=14151","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 2018 Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Pope Francis has called a gathering of bishops across the world (called a Synod) in October 2018 on the topic of\u00a0<i><a title=\"Read the synod prepatory document on the Vatican website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/synod\/documents\/rc_synod_doc_20170113_documento-preparatorio-xv_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment<\/a>,<\/i> to talk about how the Catholic Church can better support young people in living their faith and identifying and pursuing their mission in life. <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p align=\"center\">To help Pope Francis and the Bishops prepare for this Synod, they are asking both Catholic and non-Catholic young people\u00a0across the world to share their experience. Not only will your input help Pope Francis prepare for the Synod, it will also help our\u00a0bishop, Bishop\u00a0David Walkowiak,\u00a0and diocese discern how we can better engage and support young people on their journey of faith.<\/p>\n<h1>Pope Francis wants to hear from you! Take the survey\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dioceseofgrandrapids.org\/multimedia\/Pages\/Synod_2018_Home.aspx#.WTBws-srKM8\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/letters\/2017\/documents\/papa-francesco_20170113_lettera-giovani-doc-sinodo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to Young People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tbd_vQC_VWo\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis&#8217; April Prayer Intention video &#8211; A Challenge to Young People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has called a gathering of bishops across the world (called a Synod) in October 2018 on the topic of\u00a0Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment, to talk about how the Catholic Church can better support young people in living their faith and identifying and pursuing their mission in life. To help Pope Francis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":591,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14201,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14151\/revisions\/14201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}