Anglican Synod opens tonight

The 42nd session of the Diocesan Synod of the Anglican Church gets underway tonight with a special service at St. John’s Cathedral. This year the Synod is being held under the theme “You Are My Neighbour.” According to the Right Reverend Sylvestre Romero, Anglican Bishop of Belize, the country is in need of some healing.

Right Reverend Sylvestre Romero, Anglican Bishop, Belize

“Well one of the things that is troubling the nation is that we try to live our individual lives…lives separate from each other. So this independency of individuals is separating us from seeing ourselves first of all as families and then as community and in general as a nation. We see ourselves coming together only on certain occasions but yet when we need to confront certain situations and come together, that’s where the problem is. We tend to go our own ways, our own separate ways, and so we need to come together. We need togetherness in our country for us to really solve some of the problems that are confronting us. Our young people for example, we are really losing our touch with them while we should be in touch with each other. We are really separated from what is happening with the young people. I think because of the lack of love we do not accept them into our own way of thinking and to really cross the border with what is happening to our young people and children as well.”

The highlight of the Synod is a banquet that will take place at the Radisson hotel this Friday. Special guest speaker at the dinner will be the Reverend Cynthia McMillan, widow of the late Keith McMillan, the 11th Anglican Bishop of Belize.