As the Maltese say, “iż-żmien ma jistenna ’l ħadd!” (Time doesn’t wait for anyone!). The diocesan process ‘One Church, One Journey’, and the first phase of the Synod on Synodality are bound to share this experience. Let’s start with a chronology of events. On March 2018, the International Theological Commission published its document ‘Synodality in the life and mission of the Church’. The commission cautioned that the idea of the Church as “synodal” by nature is something novel and requires “careful theological clarification”! This notwithstanding, come November 2019, Pope Francis insisted: “Synodality is a style, it is a walk together, and it is what the Lord expects from the Church of the third millennium.” With this pastoral mindset the tables were turned: synodality as a way of being a Church took priority. Synods are good but static events, dated both in their start and closure. Synodality is dynamic, it is a not an event but a mode of being. March 7, 2020: The Vatican announced that a synod on synodality with the theme: “For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission” will start in October 2022 – a date quickly postponed to October 2023. June 7, 2020, the...