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.

Gospel of Luke

ACTA Commentary Midnight Mass

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

ACTA  COMMENTARY

THE LECTIONARY

The Season of Christmas

Midnight Mass

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Diocese of Parramatta

The Priesthood in Australia

Written by: Rev Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv

https://parracatholic.org/address-at-the-manly-reunion-gathering/

Reflections on its future in the light of the Royal Commission

INTRODUCTION:

Thank you for this opportunity to share with you some of my reflections on the future of the priesthood in Australia. I am conscious that I am a kind of Johnny-come-lately rather than a native born Australian and that many of you here have a breadth of pastoral experience far richer and deeper than mine. Nor do I claim to have better knowlege of this subject. For I am yet to feel any ontological advantage of my episcopacy (!).

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Luke

3rd Sunday of Advent Yr C

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

ACTA COMMENTARY

THE SUNDAY LECTIONARY

THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT

YEAR C: YEAR OF LUKE

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Luke

2nd Sunay of Advent Yr C

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

ACTA COMMENTARY

THE SUNDAY LECTIONARY

SECOND  SUNDAY IN ADVENT

YEAR C: YEAR OF LUKE


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Holy Spirit

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

Written by: Joseph O’Hanlon

 ACTA COMMENTARY

THE SUNDAY LECTIONARY

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

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