Working in the world without a religious vocation

There are generous souls, men and women, who feel the desire to work with all their strength in the Lord’s vineyard. They do not, however, have a religious vocation, nor do they desire the “life of evangelical perfection”, but they want to fulfil their desire to dedicate themselves to the pursuit of Christian perfectionand to doing apostolate, right in the middle of the world and in ordinary life.

These people who hunger for perfection know that there are plenty of spheres that also belong to God, but whose boundaries a priest or a religious, by the nature of their vocation, cannot cross. The progressive de-Christianisation of modern society offers eloquent proof that human life, professions and social activities are often far removed from the Church and from the tasks that belong properly to people formally consecrated to her service.