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The Synod wishes to state that Christian initiation is a crucial element in the New Evangelization and is the means by which the Church, as a mother, brings forth children and regenerates herself. Therefore we propose that the traditional process of Christian initiation, that has often become simply a proximate preparation for the sacraments, be everywhere considered in a catechumenal prospective, giving more relevance to permanent mystagogy, and thus becoming true initiation to Christian life through the sacraments. Vgl. Congregatie voor de Clerus, Algemeen directorium voor de catechese (15 aug 1997), 91.

In this perspective it is not without consequences that the situation today concerning the three sacraments of Christian initiation, despite their theological unity, are pastorally diverse. These differences in the ecclesial communities are not of a doctrinal nature but differences of pastoral judgment. This Synod however requests that what the Holy Father has affirmed in Paus Benedictus XVI - Postsynodale Apostolische Exhortatie
Sacramentum Caritatis
Het Sacrament van de Liefde - Over de Eucharistie, bron en hoogtepunt van het leven en de zending van de Kerk
(22 februari 2007), become a stimulus for dioceses and episcopal conferences to review their practices of Christian initiation: “Concretely, it needs to be seen which practice better enables the faithful to put the sacrament of the Eucharist at the center, as the goal of the whole process of initiation” Paus Benedictus XVI, Postsynodale Apostolische Exhortatie, Het Sacrament van de Liefde - Over de Eucharistie, bron en hoogtepunt van het leven en de zending van de Kerk, Sacramentum Caritatis (22 feb 2007), 18.