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 The Age of the Laity?

 Q It is the age of the laity.¡± Is it?

  A God gives enough grace in every time to everyone in order to be saved. Yet, many people do not take advantage of these graces, they do not respond positively to God, they do not ¡°cooperate¡± with grace, they ¡°resist the Holy Ghost¡± (Act. 7:51)


In itself, a life consecrated to God either in a religious community (monks, nuns, etc.) or in the sacred priesthood, offers many more opportunities for grace, so that souls find an overabundance of graces there for their salvation. Hence there are, in the history of the Church, proportionally many more clergy and religious who are canonised saints. The very desire of holiness [itself an effect of grace] has often been the reason why they embraced that state, and in return they found in that state an overabundance of graces with which they attained the heights of holiness.
 

However in the history of the Church there were some periods sadly noticeable for the treasons of the clergy: such was the Arian crisis, where many bishops and clerics had fallen into that heresy either formally or by compromise with it (semi-Arians, etc.); often the fact that the emperor (Constans, son of Constantine) was himself an Arian was the cause of such fall, since these clerics wanted to please the civil authority to gain favours. At that time often the laity kept the faith better than the clerics (see Cardinal John Henri Newman on the matter), even though the great champions against Arianism were clerics (St Athanasius, St Hilary, etc.)
 

In our times we have a similar situation, where many clerics have fallen either formally into modernism or are compromised with modernism in many different degrees. Often the faithful have kept the faith better, especially through devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yet the great champion against modernism has been a bishop, Archbishop Lefebvre!


Yet, when people speak of ¡°the age of the laity¡±, they do not mean what I explained above, viz. that the laity has been able to keep the faith better than the clergy in front of the invasion of modernism in the Church!
 

What is meant today by the expression ¡°the age of the laity¡± is the desire to give to the laity positions of command in the Church, disregarding the express institution of the hierarchy by our Lord Jesus Christ by the ¡°Sacrament of Holy Orders¡±: Our Lord has established in His Church the essential ¡°line of command¡± as a ¡°hierarchy¡± = authority belonging to priests (hieros in Greek), and He chose these priests to be only men. 
 

This is the Divine Choice. People who do not agree with that choice are not really Catholic. What we should do is to ¡°let this mind be in [us], which was also in Christ Jesus:¡± (Phil. 2:5), and St Paul goes on to stress the importance of humility. Our Lord Himself had stressed that importance for those whom He had chosen: ¡°Jesus ¡¦ said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them. It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister: And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant. Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many¡±(Mt. 20:25-28).
 

If our Lord stressed that even the Apostles, first bishops and the first Pope, should be humble, how much more all the other members of the Church! That ambition (of the laity to take over the position of command in the Church) is radically opposed to that ¡°mind that was in Christ Jesus¡±!
 

There are a lot of ¡°services¡± that can be rendered by the laity (which laity does include monks and nuns), which are beautiful works of charity: schools, hospitals, etc. The Church used to have a wonderful educational work, which in greatly fell apart after Vatican II, and also hospital works, which today are mined by doctors who do not accept the Church¡¯s moral teaching.
 

What is needed is a return to the spirit of Faith, which built up all these beautiful works: faith and humility, not ambition. Faith can rebuild that which Faith had built in the past. May the Blessed Virgin Mary, Virgin most faithful, help all the faithful to keep the Faith, and to live it with such fervour as to rebuild all these good works, for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church!