{"id":16328,"date":"2013-01-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2013-01-30T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T15:49:44","slug":"the-laitys-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/the-laitys-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: The Laity&#8217;s Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16329\" alt=\"Vatican 2\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vatican-2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vatican-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vatican-2-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">Today, many Catholics (including some bishops) seem to think that Vatican II was about the role of the laity <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">in the Church<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17.77777862548828px\">Eucharistic<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\">\u00a0ministers, lectors, and so forth. But it was really about the role of the laity <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">in the world<\/span>. The true Catholic life is one of personal conversion and evangelization; it does not involve hanging around the sacristy. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>Recently, Francis\u00a0Cardinal\u00a0George of Chicago said that the biggest failure of the post-Vatican\u00a0II Church was her failure to get out the council&#8217;s message about the laity &#8211; who, after all, comprise 99% of the Church.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">&#8211; George Sim Johnston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, many Catholics (including some bishops) seem to think that Vatican II was about the role of the laity in the Church &#8211;\u00a0Eucharistic\u00a0ministers, lectors, and so forth. But it was really about the role of the laity in the world. The true Catholic life is one of personal conversion and evangelization; it does not involve hanging around the sacristy. Recently,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[1884,1883,1784,26],"class_list":["post-16328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-cardinal-george","tag-george-sim-johnston","tag-second-vatican-council","tag-vatican-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16328"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}