Lay Members Christs Faithful

By Pope John Paul II

Book Overview

This document details the theological aspects of the role of the laity in the Church, as well as their formation and mission. The document aims to indicate the road to lay participation in society that is the gift and responsibility of the faithful. It includes all aspects of the Synod: Lineamenta, the Instrumentum Laboris, the introduction, individual presentations, a summary of reports, the final Propositions, and concluding Message.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819844594
• ISBN13: 9780819844590
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Pauline Books & Media
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Most of Us are Called to the Lay Apostolate

Sometimes, it feels as though this incredible doucument had never been written. Its clear guidance on the laity's role in the world is timely & desperately needed: "The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination....The human being is entitled to such rights, in every phase of development, from conception until natural death; and in every condition, whether healthy or sick, whole or handicapped, rich or poor" (38).