{"id":2993,"date":"2014-10-09T07:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:52:11","slug":"the-church-is-a-torch-not-a-lighthouse-metaphors-from-the-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-church-is-a-torch-not-a-lighthouse-metaphors-from-the-synod","title":{"rendered":"The Church Is a Torch Not a Lighthouse: Metaphors from the Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/torch-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"torch\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/torch-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/torch-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/torch.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some powerful images for the Church are emerging from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family this week, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/synodonfamily.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/08\/mixing-it-up-synod-members-turn-to-metaphor-to-get-message-across\/\">Catholic News Service<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;one bishop Oct. 7 told the assembly that the light the church brings to its members is not fixed like a lighthouse on the shore but is a torch that accompanies the pilgrimage of those seeking to live the truth<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the challenge of transmitting church teaching on sexuality and married life to modern men and women, the bishop reportedly said the torch of faith and truth lights the path of believers; the proclamation of truth cannot be like using a beacon to blind people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the bishops are also finding a metaphor from Pope Francis to be particularly helpful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pope Francis\u2019 description of the church as a \u201cfield hospital\u201d adopting emergency life-saving measures \u2014 not simply offering tests to determine the faithful\u2019s cholesterol levels \u2014 has been echoed numerous times in the synod hall, the briefers said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a synod briefing paper released by the Vatican press office, one synod member warned that if the church does not dedicate its energy to being a \u201cfield hospital,\u201d it easily could become a \u201cmortuary performing autopsies\u201d on failed marriages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article at <a href=\"http:\/\/synodonfamily.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/08\/mixing-it-up-synod-members-turn-to-metaphor-to-get-message-across\/\">Catholic News Service&#8217;s special section on the Synod<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some powerful images for the Church are emerging from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family this week, according to Catholic News Service: &#8230;one bishop Oct. 7 told the assembly that the light the church brings to its members is not fixed like a lighthouse on the shore but is a torch that accompanies the pilgrimage of those seeking to live the truth Speaking about the challenge of transmitting church teaching on sexuality and married life to modern men and women, the bishop reportedly said the torch of faith&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[521,401,516],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-metaphors","tag-pope-francis","tag-synod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/torch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-Mh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}