On the morning of 2 October, in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis presided over Holy Mass on the occasion of the opening of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme: ‘For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission’. The liturgical service was provided by seminarians of Sedes Sapientiae. Together with them who carried out the service, all of us in the College follow the synodal work attentively and accompany it with our prayers, in the hope, as the Holy Father wished in his homily, that the synod will be «a place of listening in communion, where, as Saint Gregory the Great says, what someone has in himself or herself partially is possessed completely by another, and although some have particular gifts, everything belongs to everyone in the “charity of the Spirit” (cf. Homilies on the Gospels, XXXIV)».