J.P. II's Catholic Laity - 1 - a Chosen People

J.P. II’s Catholic Laity – 1 – a Chosen People

www.cinopsbegone.blogsport.com/ Monday, Feb. 18, 2008

“You are called on to take up your role in the evangelization of the world. Yes, the laity are a ‘chosen people, a holy priesthood.’ They are called on to be ‘the salt of the earth’ and ‘the light of the world.’

It is their vocation and their unique mission to manifest the Gospel in their lives and also to add it as leaven to the world in which they live and work.

The great force that rules the world – in politics, mass media, science, technology, culture, education, industry, and work – represent precisely the areas in which lay people are competent to carry out their mission.

If these forces are controlled by people who are true disciples of Christ and whose knowledge and talents make them, at the same time, experts in their particular field, then the world will truly be changed from within by the redeeming power of Christ.” August 28, 1980
The above are excerpts from a book: The Private Prayers of POPE JOHN PAUL II a LIFE IN PRAYER, Atria Books, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sydney, 2005

Pope Benedict’s Co-Workers of the Truth

When the murder of innocent life is called a right, then injustice has become justice. When the law can no longer protect human life, it is suspect as law. Saying this does not mean wanting to impose specifically Christian morality on all members of a pluralistic society.

What is in question here is human nature, the humanity of a person who cannot make the trampling on a created being a means of self-liberation without profoundly deceiving himself.

The vehemence of the dispute over this question is due to the profundity of the question that is being discussed. Do we become free only when we have cut ourselves loose from creation and have cast it off as enslavement? … In the last analysis, the battle being waged is about man as such, and from that we Christians cannot dispense ourselves….

In the anxious attempt to obstruct the path of new human life as silently and as surely as possible, can we not detect a deep anxiety about the future?... On the one hand, this anxiety emanates, no doubt, from the fact that the free gift of life does not seem meaningful to us because we have lost the gift of its meaning; there is evident a despair about one’s own life that makes us unwilling to impose on others the dark way of humanity. On the other hand, we see exemplified here clearly and simply a fear of competition, a fear of the curtailment the other may invariably be for me. The other, he who is to come, becomes a threat.

True love is death, an obliteration of oneself before and for the other. But we have no desire for death. We want only to be ourselves and lead lives as free as possible from sharing and disturbance…. Feb. 15th entry.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.