CONTINENTAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD

PRAGUE, 5-12 FEBRUARY 2023

Sunday

5 February 2023

18:30 Depart for Holy Mass from the hotel

19:00Opening Holy Mass with Vespers in the Strahov Premonstratensian Church

Presider: H.E. Msgr. Jan Graubner, Archbishop of Prague 20:30Dinner at the hotel

Monday

6 February 2023

07:30 Holy Mass – Main Hall

Presider: H.Em. Card. Jean-Claude Hollerich, General Rapporteur of the Synod

08:15 Breakfast

09:00Opening of the Assembly – Main Hall

Moderator: Rev. Antonio Ammirati, CCEE Vice-Secretary & Spokesperson Adsumus prayer

Greetings from

H.E. Msgr. Jan Graubner, Archbishop of Prague

H.E. Msgr. Gintaras Grušas, Archbishop of Vilnius and CCEE President H.Em. Card. Mario Grech, General Secretary of the Synod

09:30 Working methodology during the Assembly

Dr. Mauricio Lopez Oropeza, Task Force for the General Secretariat of the Synod

10:00 Spiritual introduction to the Assembly

Prof. Msgr. Tomáš Halík, Charles University Prague

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 I Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Rev. Antonio Ammirati

13 addresses by the National delegations: two delegates from each Bishops' Conference on the questions from the Document for the Continental Stage (6’ total)

All interventions must be written and delivered to the Secretariat After every 4 participant addresses a meditative pause/prayer for 3’

12:30 End of working session 

12:45 Lunch

15:00 Group work – 1st DCS question

14 groups composed of 12 delegates Method of spiritual conversation

Groups will be the same for the duration of the Assembly

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 I Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Rev. Antonio Ammirati

Plenary sharing of group work (4’ each), free dialogue (3’) and addresses from the guests (3’)

Summaries of the group work should be handed in to the Secretariat After every 5 participant addresses a meditative pause/prayer for 3’

19:00 Prayer guided by brothers of the Taizé Community

19:45 Dinner at the hotel

Tuesday 7 February 2023

07:30 Holy Mass – Main Hall

Presider: H.Em. Card. Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops 08:15Breakfast

09:00 II Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Dr. Mauricio Lopez Oropeza, Task Force for the General Secretariat of the Synod

13 addresses by the National delegations: two delegates from each Bishops' Conference on the questions from the Document for the Continental Stage (6’ total)

All interventions must be written and delivered to the Secretariat After every 4 participant addresses a meditative pause/prayer for 3’

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Group work – 2nd DCS question

14 groups composed of 12 delegates Method of spiritual conversation

Groups will be the same for the duration of the Assembly

12:30 End of working session

12:45 Lunch

15:00 II Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Dr. Mauricio Lopez Oropeza

Plenary sharing of group work (4’ each), free dialogue (3’) and addresses from the guests (3’)

Summaries of the group work should be handed in to the Secretariat After every 5 participant addresses a meditative pause/prayer for 3’

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 III Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Dr. Beate Gilles, General Secretary of the German Bishops’ Conference

13 addresses by the National delegations: two delegates from each Bishops' Conference on the questions from the Document for the Continental Stage (6’ total)

All interventions must be written and delivered to the Secretariat Free dialogue (3’) and addresses from the guests (3’)

After every 4 participant addresses a meditative pause/prayer for 3’ 19:00Prayer guided by representatives of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church

19:45 Dinner at the hotel.

Wednesday 8 February 2023

08:30 Prayer guided by representatives of the Conference of European Churches

09:00 Group work – 3rd DCS Question

14groups composed of 12 delegates Method of spiritual conversation

Groups will be the same for the duration of the Assembly

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 III Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Dr. Beate Gilles

Plenary sharing of group work (4’ each), free dialogue (3’) and addresses from the guests (3’)

Summaries of the group work should be handed in to the Secretariat After every 5 participant addresses a meditative pause/prayer for 3’

12:30 End of working session

12:45 Lunch

15:00 IV Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Dr. Mauricio Lopez Oropeza

Summary of online group work and free dialogue (4’)

Summaries of the group work should be handed in to the Secretariat

17:20 Depart for Holy Mass

18:00 Holy Mass in Prague Cathedral

Delegates from the national synodal phase in the Czech Republic will participate

Presider: H.Em. Card. Mario Grech, General Secretary of the Synod

20:00Dinner at the hotel.

Thursday 9 February 2023

07:30 Holy Mass – Main Hall

Presider: H.E. Msgr. Jude Thaddeus Okolo, Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Rep.

08:15 Breakfast

09:00 V Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: Rev. Antonio Ammirati

Presentation and debate on the draft Final Document

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 V Working session – Main Hall

Approval of the Final Document

12:30 Conclusions

H.E. Msgr. Gintaras Grušas

12:45Lunch

FREE AFTERNOON

19:30 Possibility of dinner at the hotel

MEETING OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE BISHOPS’S CONFERENCES

Friday 10 February 2023

09:00 Lauds in the Main Hall

Presider: H.Em. Card. Juan José Omella Omella, President of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference

09:30 I Working session – Main Hall

Moderator: H.E. Msgr. Ladislav Nemet, CCEE Vice-President

Addresses by the Presidents to collectively review the synodal experience starting from the Assembly's Final Document

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Working session – Main Hall

Addresses by the Presidents to collectively review the synodal experience starting from the Assembly's Final Document

12:45 Lunch

15:00 Group work (4)

16:45 End of work

17:15Depart for Holy Mass

18:00 Holy Mass with Vespers in the Benedictine Abbey Břevnov

Presider: H.E. Msgr. Ladislav Nemet

20:00 Dinner at the hotel