MISSION statement: Revised 2026

We are a group of Catholics, some of whom are ordained, brought together by our love of Christ’s Church and a desire to be part of the synodal renewal it needs.
 
Inspired by the legacy of the Second Vatican Council, and the call to Synodality for the Church of the third millennium, we want to contribute fully to the life of our Church so that it may be a more effective and inclusive sign of the Kingdom of God.
 
To enable this, we wish to promote listening, dialogue and receptivity within the Church, and with all people of good will, open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
 
Accordingly, we aim to facilitate opportunities to share experiences, practices and insights to discern our hopes and aims for the Church in the world today.

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.

Holy Spirit

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

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TWENTY-FOURTH  SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

Joseph O’Hanlon

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Holy Spirit

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

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TWENTY-SIXTH  SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

ACTA COMMENTARY

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TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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Reflections for the Eucharistic Congress

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

Liverpool 2018

THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN OUR BIBLICAL TRADITIONS.

The Old Testament

Jesus came into our world, a world in which there was deep understanding of communion with God.  The traditions into which he was born had rich experiences of communion with God. Such obvious conceptions as the Fatherhood of God, the covenant binding God and People in an embrace of love, God as husband longingly pursuing an errant wife (Hosea), speak of a communion, of presence, of experienced love.  There is an intimacy in this love that speaks of a sacrament most holy, a sacrament divine.

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Pope Francis Letter to the People of God

Written by: Alex Walker
It is impossible to think of a conversion of our activity as a Church that does not include the active participation of all the members of God’s People. Indeed, whenever we have tried to replace, or silence, or ignore, or reduce the People of God to small elites, we end up creating communities, projects, theological approaches, spiritualities and structures without roots, without memory, without faces, without bodies and ultimately, without lives.[2] This is clearly seen in a peculiar way of understanding the Church’s authority, one common in many communities where sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience have occurred. Such is the case with clericalism, an approachthat “not only nullifies the character of Christians, but also tends to diminish and undervalue the baptismal grace that the Holy Spirit has placed in the heart of our people”.[3]
Clericalism, whether fostered by priests themselves or by lay persons, leads to an excision in the ecclesial body that supports and helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today. To say “no” to abuse is to say an emphatic “no” to all forms of clericalism.
 
 
  1. Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
  2. 'Take and eat' becomes 'kneel and adore'
  3. Daily Worship led by Sr Gemma Simmonds C.J.
  4. Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

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