- Written by: Chris McDonnell
The Season of Easter is at an end. The Liturgy of the Hours concludes with three words on Pentecost Sunday evening - “ So Eastertide ends”.
With Trinity Sunday and the coming weeks we enter that period, rather strangely called “Ordinary Time”, a space that takes us through the Summer and Autumn in the Northern hemisphere to the beginning of the Season of Advent in the first days of Winter.
I have often wondered why we use the word ‘ordinary’, as though these coming weeks are somehow humdrum and boring when they are in fact a time of freedom joy and adventure reflecting those days in the early Christian Communities when the Spirit fired the lives of the Apostles and their friends.
The dove, being released by Papa Francesco, is gaining again the freedom of the skies and there is immense joy on the face of Francis that he is giving the dove its liberty.
- Written by: Camilla Gilmore
ACTA held its first national conference of diocesan reps at Hinsley Hall in Leeds on 6 and 7 May. 65 people gathered for a time of sharing, reflection and prayer. Please read the report below either as a Word document or as a text file
Hinsley Hall Conference Report 2013 
Hinsley Hall Conference Report 2013
- Written by: Valentine Farrell
Ownership, Power, Influence, Control;
Fickle and misleading signposts on all our journeys.
They read like place names on the tortured map
of the human heart.
Minutes of the 4th Meeting of Liverpool and Lancaster- Written by: Alex Walker
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