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Ave Maria! • Cardinal Arinze gives a talk on the role of the laity in the work of evangelization that he titles Go Out to all the World • and tell the Good News! The Lay Apostolate in our Day at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, Indiana. • Notes: • Vatican II - Apostolicam Actuositatem (Apostolate of the Laity) - http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_co... - Paragraph 2 • Different roles of priests, religious and laity that form the team which is the Church • What is the lay persons distinctive role included in Baptism? • Gives grace and right to worship and mission. They should know their role so that the team works together with clerics • 8:00 • Lay people are the vast majority of the Church • Evangelize where they are working in secular affairs • Help with Clerics with there expertise and many hands, but this is not the height of the lay apostolate • 12:00 • Specifically called to the evangelization of the secular order • Bring spirit of Christ into the every day life, Christianization of temporal order • Government, medicine, mechanics, transport, manufacturing, finance, fathers and mothers • Gaudiem et Spes 43 • Paul VI - Evangelii Nuntiandi (Announcing the Gospel) - http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/... • John Paul II - Christifideles Laici (The Laity of Christ's Faithful People) - http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-pau... • Benedict XVI - Deus Caritas Est (God is love) - http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict... • 16:00 • Not just helping the priest but has there own share, there own realm that is very important • Faith is under attack • Especially because family is under attack and will be saved by lay people who are more involved in this • Should not give up on politics must be active as well as pray • Jesus, Judas and Peter, Peter was sleeping and Judas was very busy • We must stay awake and be active! • Lay people are often more listened to since they are involved and not considered so different as are clerics • Often bishops feel threatened by the lay people but they are not in competition, one body • 20:00 • Good leader is not afraid of other leaders • Common problem is poor ecclesiology, think Bishops and priest are really the Church • Problem for priests who try to run everything not relying on lay people who are often very much experts in their field • Lay people too need to have good ecclesiology and theology to know their place and how they are needed • Should not be at odds with clergy, work with them and work in the world as leaders • 28:00 • Can not be à la carte or cafeteria Catholic who say I am Catholic but ... , rather I am Catholic, therefore ... • Vatican II - Gaudiem et Spes 43 Church in the world of today - http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_co... • GS 43 What the Church offers human activity through its members • Have duty to spread the faith among common people • 31:00 • Church not just for Sunday • Must be active as Christians on Monday • Christians who neglects his secular, temporal duties jeopardizes his salvation, must have unity between citizenship of Church and society • Religion should unite all of our activities • 36:00 • Secular is spouse parenting, politics, finance, manufacturing, etc. • Will try to be proficient • For guidance and spiritual sustenance turn to priest • But up to lay people to take on role in the world • Develop well formed conscience • 39:00 • Book The Lay Person's Distinctive Role by Cardinal Arinze • http://www.ignatius.com/Products/LPDR... • Holiness means living christian life in ones vocation whether parent or priest. • 42:00 • Parents of St. Therese canonized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_M... • Many examples of lay people becoming saints even secular leaders: President of Tanzania, St. Louis of France • Be ye perfect • USCCB: http://www.usccb.org/about/laity-marr... • • • +++ • For Audio go to https://airmaria.com?p=60111 • By the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate http://marymediatrix.com • To Subscribe to this channel: • http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... • To contribute to Franciscanfriars and AirMaria: • https://airmaria.com/contribute/
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