The Sacramental Character of Synodality

Abstract This essay proposes that the relationship between synodality and sacramental participation runs deep – so deep that one cannot be understood apart from the other. This is to say that there is no synodality apart from an understanding of synodality’s sacramental foundations and its own sacramental character and that the economy of sacramental grace cannot be fully realized by and within the ecclesial community without its fuller integration of synodal journeying together.