“If the work of evangelisation is to flourish then it must move beyond the realms of liturgy, ministry and Church governance and it must embrace the secular world as its primary and fundamental focus,” writes Paul Lentern in Theology and Philosophy of Education journal.
“This is the place of the lay person, and this is the essence of the lay mission and vocation. Cardinal Cardijn demonstrated, well and truly, how this could be done and, for the decades that followed, the young people of the Jocist movements lived this mission with energy and passion,” he continues in an article first presented at a conference in Prague on 11 October 2024 entitled “Christians and the Transformations of Evangelisation.”
“In recent years this has been waning with a lack of institutional support,” Lentern observes. “The Church today and the people of our world, whom she serves, are so much the poorer for this occurrence.”
“There is a critical need to discover anew the transformative power of See, Judge and Act as a means of propelling lay people into the world where they may, once again, become effective instruments of evangelisation as humankind embrace this new epoch of humanity with challenges and opportunities not yet imagined,” Lentern concludes.
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Paul Lentern, Reflection, Action and the Double Transformation (Theology and Philosophy of Education, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024)
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