Contributions to the Model of Synodal Leadership in Local and Core Ecclesial Communities from the Notion of Vocation and a Gender Perspective

Abstract

The practical and pastoral dimension of synodality leads us to ask ourselves about the implementation of synodal processes in nuclear communities, be they parish communities, base communities, charismatic communities within a lay movement or a religious congregation of shared life. The text will seek to clarify how synodality is expressed in the relationships between the members of the community and in their daily practices. To this end, we will explore, from a gender perspective and from the notion of vocation, the community frictions that arise as a consequence of the patriarchal dualistic model of clergy-laity and man-woman, drawing a systemic map that provides adequate strategies for the practice of synodal co-responsibility. We will delve into community leadership, the exercise of power and the performance of roles and services that emerge from a synodal model of community. Finally, from the notion of synodal ministry, we will point out some contributions aligned with the synodal proposal that can improve community activity, community life, community, pastoral theology, feminist theology, feminist theology.