It is written in an accessible style, sensitively engages with the issues surrounding sacraments today and proposes a synodal response. It exposes the weaknesses in the way sacraments are ‘used’ as cultural rites of passage or a means of showcasing a school.
Theway in which synodality is interpreted in the book provides a meansof breaking out of this truncated view. It proposes, for example, thatparents who wish their children to receive Baptism, Confirmationand Eucharist should be offered courses so that they understandthe richness and responsibility of presenting their children for thesesacraments.
