Past Events

WACI February 2014 Meeting

WACI February 2014 Meeting

“2015 SYNOD ON THE FAMILY" Talk and discussion Venue: Milltown Institute, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 Date: Monday 9th February, 2014 Time: 7-30pm For details visit the WACI website here  

WACI February 2014 Meeting

WACI January 2014 Meeting

“MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR GAYS & LESBIANS" Talk and discussion re Referendum Venue: Milltown Institute, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 Date: Monday 12th January, 2014 Time: 7-30pm For details visit the WACI website here  

Minutes:  ACI North Wicklow Branch – Wed 14th Jan 2015

ACI North Wicklow – Minutes for 12th Nov, 2014

The meeting opened with a warm welcome to Fr Larry Behan, Moderator for the Bray and Enniskerry parishes . Eucharist Celebration Fr Larry celebrated a Eucharist service with us. Teresa and Eimear had prepared a Mass leaflet for the occasion. The theme was Celebration...

WACI February 2014 Meeting

WACI Advent Liturgy

WACI Advent Liturgy Date: 30th November 2014 Time: 3pm to 5pm Venue: Manresa Jesuit Centre of Spirituality Dollymount Dublin 3 Ireland For details visit the ACI website here  

ACI Mid-West meeting October 30th, 2014

ACI Mid-West meeting October 30th, 2014

A Public Meeting under the auspices of ACI Mid-West will be held in The Conference Room in the Redemptorist Monastery in Mt. St. Alphonsus on Thursday, October 30th, at 7.45 p.m.   Fr. Éamonn Fitzgibbon will address the meeting on The Diocesan Synod and The Role...

ACI’s Campaign for Lumen Gentium 37

The Promise of Synodality

What we have experienced of synodality so far gives ACI real hope that a longstanding structural injustice in the church may at last be acknowledged and overcome.

As all Irish bishops well know, the 'co-responsibility' they urge lay people to share - as numbers and energies of clergy decline - has been sabotaged time and again by canonical rules that deny representational authority and continuity to parish pastoral councils.  ACI's 2019 call for the immediate honouring of Lumen Gentium Article 37 becomes more urgent by the day and is supported by the following documents - also presented to the ICBC in October 2019.

The Common Priesthood of the People of God and the Renewal of the Church
It was Catholic parents and victims of clerical abuse who taught Catholic Bishops to prioritise the safeguarding of children in the church

Jesus as Model for the Common Priesthood of the People of God
It was for challenging religious hypocrisy and injustice that Jesus was accused and crucified. He is therefore a model for the common priesthood of the laity and for the challenging of injustice - in society and within the church.

A Suggested Strategy for the Recovery of the Irish and Western Catholic Church
Recovery of the church depends upon acknowledgment of the indispensable role of the common priesthood of the lay people of God and the explicit abandonment by bishops and clergy of paternalism and clericalism - the expectation of deference from lay people rather than honesty and integrity.

For the full story of ACI's campaign for the honouring of Article 37 of Lumen Gentium, click here.

Prayer

"Come Holy Spirit, Renew Your wonders in this our day, as by a new Pentecost. Grant to Your Church that, being of one mind and steadfast in prayer with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and following the lead of blessed Peter, it may advance the reign of our Divine Saviour, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. Amen."

Saint Pope John XXIII, 1962 - In preparation for Vatican Council II, 1962-65.

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