Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation A personal response in a communitarian dimension

Catholic Action

•Is a particular vocation

•It is a call to holiness

»It stems from the Christian Initiation

promises.

»It is strengthened through the listening to

the Word of God, through participation in

the Eucharist and through the exercise of

love and pardon.

Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation

Catholic Action

•It is a lay vocation with a particular charism

»Missionary spirit.

»Diocesan Character.

»At the service of Unity.

»Lay Identity (John Paul II’s reference to

characteristic notes in AA 20).

Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation

•lived in a community which has responded to a common call which each member has freely and firmly accepted.

•which cultivates and reinforces communion with the Bishop and with priests. With other ecclesial associations and movements.

Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation

Catholic Action:a lay vocation

•which requires fidelity and commitment towards:

»The growth of all the Christian community,

»Pastoral projects and

»The spreading of the spirit of the Gospel in

all spheres of life (reference to ChL 31).

Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation

Catholic Action:a lay vocation

Catholic Action

•It is a call to holiness in everyday life

»By living the Gospel, in a radical way, in

the normal duties of everyday life.

»By creating, with patience and

persistence, a network of fraternity

which embraces everybody especially

those most in need...

Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation

Catholic Action:a call to sanctity

»Serving the particular Church and its

mission as the fundamental orientation

of its apostolic commitment.

»Putting all its apostolic energy at the

service of communion .

Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation

Catholic Action: a particular lay vocation

Catholic Action:a call to sanctity

»which helps parishes and the

community to rediscover the fervour to

announce the Gospel and the urge to

be pastorally concerned.

»which looks at the world with the eyes

of God and search for signs of the

presence of the Holy Spirit therein.

San JoséMoscatti

Santa GiannaB. Molla

San José Pampuri

PierinaMorosini

Eduardo Pironio

Catholic Action is called to be «a home and a school of sanctity»

San DavidRoldán Lara

PinaSuriano

Pier GiorgioFrassatti

San SalvadorLara Puente

San ManuelMorales

“With full consciousness and disponibility, in the ordinary everyday circumstances of life, look upon Christian sanctity as the top level of ordinary Christain life”

John Paul II

“To be morning sentries of this new millennium you have to be saints!”

John Paul II

“Catholic Action should definitely aim at sanctity...”

John Paul II