"The layperson is a layperson and has to live as a layperson with the power of baptism, which enables him to be a leaven of the love of God in society itself, to create and sow hope, to proclaim the faith, not from a pulpit but from his everyday life. And like all of us, the layperson is called to carry his daily cross — the cross of the layperson, not of the priest." --Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in an interview, now Pope Francis
That quote is from this article at National Catholic Register which is about the stagnation of self-referential spiritual worldiness and ecclesiastical narcissism.
4 comments:
His thoughts are sooooooooooo similar to St. JoseMaria Escriva - I just read something like your quote today in a book I'm rereading.
I had made a mental note to read St. JoseMaria Escriva at one point and of course forgot. Thanks for bringing him up. Could you point to any good sources for him?
Oh, and I loved Pope Francis' words about "a kind of middle class holiness".
I'm currently reading Conversations With Monsignor Escriva de Balaguer. It is a series of interviews with the saint - very good.
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