ACTA - A Call To Action

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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Leadership Team

Martin Bennett - Chair

Joseph O'Hanlon - Vice Chair

Peter Farrell - Secretary

Frank Callus - Media

Gerry Hughes SJ - Vice-Chair

Kathy Bamber

Ken Holden - Treasurer

Jean Riordan - Membership secretary

Diocesan Co-Ordinators

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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C

: Written by Joseph O'Hanlon; Published: 24 January 2019

ACTA COMMENTARY LECTIONARY

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Year of Luke

The Journey Man

: Written by Chris McDonnell; Published: 24 January 2019

http://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/news/2583

The Journey Man
“I have arrived
I’m here
The destination is every step”
Thich Nath Hanh

You
journey-man, road-travelling companion
whose written word, crafted with care
woke so many mornings with a smile
whose faith was voiced with courage
lived from the humour of an Irish soul,
your destination firm-folded
within each stuttering step.
Walk on.

Your dancing eyes and joy-filled laughter
remain beyond the pain of immediate loss.
We gather the gifts you gave us
wrapped in language, lived through example
touched with tenderness and the compassion
of an open heart.

Gifts now ours to carry and to share,
each on our own Emmaus road,
this way we say goodbye to friends
lost in the drift of countless stars.

The Journey Man

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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C

: Written by Joseph O'Hanlon; Published: 15 January 2019

ACTA COMMENTARY LECTIONARY

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Year of Luke

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Radio 4 - In Our Time - Papal Infallibility

: Written by Tom O'Loughlin; Published: 10 January 2019

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In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea that Popes cannot err when defining a doctrine, in office, proclaimed at the First Vatican Council 1869-70

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Baptism of the Lord Yr 2

: Written by Joseph O'Hanlon; Published: 03 January 2019

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ACTA National Conference 2019

Saturday 12 October

Imagining the Church of the Future

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

King’s House, King’s Church, Sydney Street, Manchester M1 7HB

The Sacramentary Volume 1 Part 1

The Sacramentary Volume One Part 2

The Sacramentary Volume Two Part 1

The Sacramentary Volume Two Part 2

Missal Comparison 2011 v 1998

Chris McDonnell "Thomas Merton - A Life for our Time"24 February, 2019Birmingham
A commitment to neighbourhood09 March, 2019Diocesan Meetings, Lancaster
David McLoughlin on Renewing the Prophetic Imagination28 April, 2019Birmingham
Being Church in smaller groups18 May, 2019Diocesan Meetings, Lancaster
meeting of ACTA members within Plymouth Diocese18 May, 2019Plymouth

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Are we being honest to God?: A critical look at Christian worship, priesthood and authority

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’?

A Catholic Christian for nearly 60 years, as husband, father, grandfather, theologian, Brian Pointer poses radical questions and some answers about the Church.

SaturdayMorningEarly The book's sounding board is my belief in a creator God who can be detected in everyday life, inspiring and enthusing us each day.

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In this book, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, takes a systematic look at the 2010 English translation of the Roman Missal and the ways it fails to achieve what the Second Vatican

Council mandated: the full participation of priest and people. Critiquing the unsatisfactory principles prescribed by the Vatican instruction Liturgiam Authe

nticam (2001), this book, which includes a chapter by John Wilkins:

- tells the story of the maneuverings that sidelined the 1998 translation approved by eleven conferences of English-speaking bishops,

- criticiz

es the 2010 translation, and

- illustrates the clear superiority of the 1998 translation, the "Missal that never was"

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AWAKENING

'A remarkable contribution to solving women's inequality as one of the biggest problems within the Catholic Church today'.
Luca Badini Confalonieri, PhD in Theology (Dunelm),
Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research