Oct 21, 2014
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Members of Immaculate Conception's choir lead the people in song at the start of the listening session.Synod forms to be filled out by participants sit on the pews at Immaculate Conception Church in Hialeah during the first listening session.Archbishop Thomas Wenski leads synod participants in an opening prayer and then tells them a parable at the start of the listening session.Father Jose Luis Paniagua, left, pastor of St. Benedict Parish in Hialeah, joins other Catholics from the area for the first listening session at Immaculate Conception Church.Radio Paz staff broadcast the first synod listening session in Spanish, live-streaming it through the Internet.As the archbishop listens, Lucia Baez Luzondo, director of the Family Life Office, moderates the first Synod session in Spanish.Marcos and Karol Gutierrez of St. Benedict Parish in Hialeah fill out their synod feedback form.Father Jose Luis Menendez, pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in Miami and a member of the Synod Leadership Team, prays at the start of the first listening session in Hialeah.One of the 250 or so participants at the listening session in Hialeah makes his views known to the archbishop.A participant at the Immaculate Conception listening session in Spanish makes his views known.Archbishop Thomas Wenski listens as participants at the Immaculate Conception listening session in Spanish make their views known.Archbishop Thomas Wenski listens as participants at the Immaculate Conception listening session in Spanish make their views known.Synod Coordinator Jacqueline Debs transcribes people's comments on her laptop during the listening session at Immaculate Conception Church in Hialeah.Archbishop Thomas Wenski listens as participants at the Immaculate Conception listening session in Spanish make their views known.Archbishop Thomas Wenski listens as participants at the Immaculate Conception listening session in Spanish make their views known. Moderator Lucia Baez Luzondo, director of the Family Life Office, stands in the center.A poster outside Immaculate Conception Church in Hialeah invites people to attend the first synod listening session, held in Spanish at the church.