Plenary Talks: Nurya Martínez-Gayol, ACI

In this series, we will present the talks presented during the UISG Plenary Assembly in Rome in May 2022.

All the talks are available in the newest issue of the UISG Bulletin.

Spirituality of Synodality - Nurya Martinez-Gayol, ACI

A spirituality of listening is born from this source: the perspective of a God who listens, and listens to all, and listens especially to the “voiceless,” to the most  vulnerable, to those who have been left without words, and does so by awakening in them the faculty to speak, because His listening is always liberating.

For this reason “being listened to”, being WELL heard, is always a healing experience. 

It enables the one who is listened to reverse and recreate his own narratives as one who is wounded, and to find  ways of healing from there, to get out of the process of victimization, to regain her identity and dignity—not thanks to our advice but because of the quality of our listening, for it offers that humble but intimate space where it is possible to  experience oneself as remade, healed, repaired.

Only by being committed to a spirituality of listening can we take steps towards  the change for which the Church is yearning, and take charge of reality by opening ourselves to dialogue and discernment since listening is the condition of possibility for both.