The Church in the Life of the Faithful

      How can we live our life to praise Christ and spread His message? The Laity, the members of the Church, are challenged by this question every time we think about the God and his call. We are all called to holiness through living like Christ through prayer and repentance. Christ told us in his Sermon on the Mount to strive to be perfect. Our call to perfection is a call to greater holiness. The members of the Laity need to do more than pray every once and a while and go to mass. They need to sanctify others in every part of our lives. The Laity need to participate in the mass, regularly take part in the Sacraments, pray multiple times a day, and sanctify our ordinary lives. We are called to respond to God's call and spread the good news to every one in every part of our lives.

The Catechism on the Laity-

"Hence the laity, dedicated as they are to Christ and anointed by the Holy Spirit, are marvelously called and prepared so that even richer fruits of the Spirit maybe produced in them. For all their works, prayers, and apostolic undertakings, family and married life, daily work, relaxation of mind and body, if they are accomplished in the Spirit - indeed even the hardships of life if patiently born - all these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. In the celebration of the Eucharist these may most fittingly be offered to the Father along with the body of the Lord. And so, worshipping everywhere by their holy actions, the laity consecrate the world itself to God, everywhere offering worship by the holiness of their lives."