{"id":24365,"date":"2009-02-25T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/20-years-since-pope-john-pauls\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:10:00","slug":"20-years-since-pope-john-pauls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/20-years-since-pope-john-pauls\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years since Pope John Paul&#8217;s Christifideles Laici (&#8220;Christ&#8217;s faithful people)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\">&#8220;Vocation and mission of the laity in the Church and society. Twenty years since <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/john_paul_ii\/apost_exhortations\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_exh_30121988_christifideles-laici_en.html\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\">Christifideles Laici<\/font><\/a><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\">balance and perspectives&#8221;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/PC%20Laity.jpg\"><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/PC%20Laity.jpg\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"109\" alt=\"PC Laity.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/02\/PC%20Laity-thumb-450x109.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.h2onews.org\/_page_videoview.php?id_news=1587&amp;lang=en\">The first encounter<\/a> on February 28th will be particularly dedicated to the &#8220;Ecclesiology of <st1:place>Vatican<\/st1:place> II and Christifideles Laici&#8221;, with an introduction by Cardinal Stanis\u0142aw Ry\u0142ko, president of the <st1:place>Vatican<\/st1:place>&nbsp;office for the laity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/pontifical_councils\/laity\/laity_en\/index_en.htm\">Pontifical Council for the Laity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be Christian lay people, it must often be reminded, is a true and specific vocation. It is a calling. It is also a mission&#8211;be it in the Church, within our Christian communities, be it above all in the world. A Christian lay person is evangelical yeast, is the light of the world, the salt of the earth. This is his vocation. (&#8230;) To be Christian lay people today, to be coherent Christians, at times requires not little courage, requires going against the tide. Our dicastery tries to encourage and help the laity to live their vocation in a courageous, convincing and persuasive manner.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vocation and mission of the laity in the Church and society. Twenty years since Christifideles Laici: balance and perspectives&#8221;. The first encounter on February 28th will be particularly dedicated to the &#8220;Ecclesiology of Vatican II and Christifideles Laici&#8221;, with an introduction by Cardinal Stanis\u0142aw Ry\u0142ko, president of the Vatican&nbsp;office for the laity, Pontifical Council for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/20-years-since-pope-john-pauls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 years since Pope John Paul&#8217;s Christifideles Laici (&#8220;Christ&#8217;s faithful people)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,8,32,11],"tags":[1985,1986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}