Name: Gather@Grand: Sitting at the Table
Start: 2026-05-23T08:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-23T13:00:00-07:00
Location: 1520 Grand Ave, San Rafael, CA, United States, California 94901

Sitting at the Table
Listening Together to the Spirit
Saturday, May 23, 2026
8:30 am -1:00 pm
Facilitated by Sr. Carla Kovack, OP
Hosted by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael
The morning of reflection centers on listening as the doorway to becoming a synodal Church. Reflecting on the Emmaus story and our own experience, we will use the method of “Conversations in the Spirit” used at the two sessions of the Synod on Synodality. Participants will focus on paragraph 60 of the Final Document, which addresses the role of women.
Pope Leo says that synodality “is not a campaign. It’s a way of being and a way of being Church. It’s a way of promoting an attitude which begins with learning to listen to one another.”
The Pope recalled the value of listening to the Word of God, listening to one another, listening to the wisdom we find in men and women, in members of the Church, and those searching who might not be members of the Church.