- Written by: Alex Walker
ACTA Conference programme 2015
ACTA A Call to Action
Fourth ACTA National Conference: T o C h a n g e t h e W o r l d Leeds Trinity University, LS18 5HD
Saturday 31 October 2015
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10.00 – 11.00 Registration with Tea and Coffee
11.00 Gathering in Auditorium: Opening Prayer
11.05 Welcome
11.20 Draft Mission Statement – for information
11.30 Jon Cruddas MP: Catholic Social Teaching – What is Justice?
12.05 Q&A Session
12.20 Jenny Sinclair: The Common Good – Building Community
12.55 Q&A Session
13.10 Lunch – eat, drink, mingle, discuss, browse, reflect
14.00 Gathering in Auditorium for Workshop based on Jesus’s Great Commandment Mt. 22: 37- 40
14.10 Group leaders lead to workshop areas
14.35 Group leaders to invite groups to focus on Feedback
14.50 Comfort Break
15.00 Gathering in Auditorium for workshop feedback
15.30 Plenary
15.50 Blessing and Farewell: Jean Riordan
16.00 Depart
- Written by: Sean Smith
Pope Francis insisted that the Synod of Bishops in Rome is the unfinished business of Vatican II at an address to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first meeting of the synod as a permanent body.
Speaking at the commemoration at Paul VI Audience Hall in Vatican City on Saturday morning, Francis insisted that both the process and the substance of the Synod, currently in session, is as constitutive and expressive as the Church’s own nature and mission.
“Journeying together,” said Pope Francis in an enlargement on the Greek words from which the English word 'synod' is derived, “laity, pastors, and the Bishop of Rome, is an easy concept to put into words, but not so easy to put into practice.”
The Holy Father went on to say that each and everyone has a place in the Church, and that the key to journeying well together is listening.
- Written by: Andrew Hornsby-Smith
Last week, the Bishops’ Conference published a summary of responses to The Call, the Mission, the Journey. This is the questionnaire issued by the Bishops’ Conference in preparation for this year’s Family Synod. It is a remarkable document. The Bishops compiled response to the Synod on the Family Questionnaire
- Written by: Eileen Fitzpatrick
I think we are all a bit bewildered by the published response to the Bishops' document The Call, the Journey and the Mission.
I would like to share my own views with you from the perspective of ACTA's core purpose.
- Written by: Alex Walker
Survey: The Call, the Mission, the Journey - A Summary of Responses >>> READ THE FULL REPORT HERE >>> The Bishops compiled response to the Synod on the Family Questionnaire ACTA IS ACKNOWLEDGED THROUGHOUT !
On the Feast of the Holy Family 2014, the bishops of England and Wales invited parishes to reflect, with true spiritual discernment as requested by Pope Francis, on the themes emerging from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family.
The Call, the Mission and the Journey aimed “to help people celebrate marriage and family life, whilst recognising the difficulties that families often encounter”. The document offered material for reflecting on scripture and on the teaching of the Church on marriage and family life, as well as six questions to facilitate parish and family conversations.