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MISSION statement:

We are a group of Catholics, some of whom are ordained, brought together by our love of Christ's Church and our anxiety about its future. Still inspired by the Second Vatican Council, we want to contribute fully to the life of our Church so that we may be a more effective sign of the Kingdom of God. To do this, we believe that an atmosphere of openness and dialogue both with each other and with our church leadership needs developing. Accordingly, we aim to supply channels of free and frank communication. We desire to help create a climate of trust and respect for all where this dialogue may be fostered.

THEOLOGY statement:

ACTA is a movement built from below by clergy and laity alike in every diocese in England and Wales. It exists to give those people an effective voice. It is an instrument to establish and promote space for a trusting dialogue within a hierarchically structured people’s Church.
 
ACTA believes that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are the only way forward for mission to modern society. It is not a small chapel of selected followers; it believes in the Church as a “big tent”, with open doors. As a free and representative association of believers, it seeks to liberate the expertise in the ranks, so as to bring added energy and witness to the Church in the world.

Visions and Vocations – Catholic Women Speak

This is the second book published by Catholic Women Speak to coincide with a Synod of Bishops. Our first book, Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to the Table, was published by Paulist Press in 2015 in time for the Synod on the Family. Visions and Vocations was published on the occasion of the Synod on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment.
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Cribbing For Christmas

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Written by Joseph O'Hanlon
Published: 23 November 2018
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ACTA COMMENTARY ON OUR LECTIONARY

 

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CRIBBING FOR CHRISTMAS

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Advent begins the Church’s Year. We return to our beginning in order to understand where we Christians were born and to plot our way toward where we are destined to be. The word Advent means ‘The Coming’. It refers, of course, to the coming of Jesus into our world. But it refers, too, to our coming of age as we are called to become what God intends us to be. We need to know where we come from, what we are for, and where we are going. In Advent there are lots of comings and goings.

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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

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Written by Joseph O'Hanlon
Published: 15 November 2018
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 ACTA COMMENTARY

THE SUNDAY LECTIONARY

THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

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Published: 09 November 2018
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ACTA COMMENTARY

THE SUNDAY LECTIONARY

THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

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Written by Joseph O'Hanlon
Published: 29 October 2018
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YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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ACTA National Conference 2019

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Imagining the Church of the Future

Speaker: Diarmuid O'Murchu http://www.diarmuid13.com/

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  • meeting of ACTA members within Plymouth Diocese18 May, 2019Plymouth
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The central theme running through all five chapters is the way the image of God shown in and through the person of Jesus Christ has become distorted in the main-stream Churches, resulting in many of the practices and doctrines of worship, priesthood and authority not being ‘honest to God’.

It explores the biblical understanding of worship, particularly with reference to Jesus’ teaching about worship in ‘spirit and truth’, and compares this with the language, terminology and doctrines used in the Churches today which contain neo-pagan expressions of appeasement and obeisance.

The subject of ‘altar sacrifice’ is explored in the context of the rise of a cultic priesthood, the members of which became mediators of God’s ‘grace’. How did such a situation arise in contrast to the teaching of Jesus about himself being the only mediator for our access to God, and about his Father wanting mercy and not sacrifice?

What kind of ‘authority’ did Jesus give and teach to his disciples and apostles? Was it the kind which we now experience in the main-stream Churches, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church, as one in which office-holders rule and govern or was it one in which leaders are to guide, teach, care for and feed the People of God?

Is the Christian Church, particularly in its Roman Catholic form, ‘fit for purpose’? Are there radical changes needed for that purpose to be realised? Are its forms and structures for ministering to the People of God suitable for that purpose? Is it really being ‘honest to God’?

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