"It is necessary to know that one is lost in order to want to be saved." —Madeleine DelbrĂȘl from the book, The Holiness of Ordinary People

This Is One Message Catholics Must Heed

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Participation at Sunday Mass must be seen by a Catholic not as an imposition or a weight, but as a need and joy. To meet with brothers, to listen to the Word of God and to be nourished by Christ, immolated for us, is an experience that gives meaning to life, which infuses peace in the heart. Without Sunday, we Catholics cannot live.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

The Laity - A.W.O.L and Lost

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The laity are not, and were never meant to be, the “long arm” of the hierarchy.  They are not a part or an extension of an official Catholic system.  They are, or rather each one is, in his or her own right and on the basis of his or her piety and competence and doctrine, meant to be the presence of Christ in secular affairs. 

Monsignor Cormac Burke

 

Pretty Obvious Truth, Is it Not?


 

As long as modesty will not be put into practice, the society will continue to degrade. Society reveals what it is by the clothes it wears. 

Pope Pius XII

We Lay Folk Have Dropped The Ball

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"By fulfilling their civic duties, guided by a Christian conscience, in conformity with its values, the lay faithful exercise their proper task of infusing the temporal order with Christian values, all the while respecting the nature and rightful autonomy of that order, and cooperating with other citizens according to their particular competence and responsibility. 

The consequence of this fundamental teaching of the Second Vatican Council is that the lay faithful are never to relinquish their participation in “public life”, that is, in the many different economic, social, legislative, administrative and cultural areas, which are intended to promote organically and institutionally the common good. 

This would include the promotion and defense of good such as public order and peace, freedom and equality, respect for human life and for the environment, justice and solidarity."

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

He Was Not Off The Mark, Was He?