The Lay Apostolate By A Layman - Softcover

Sullivan, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425993532 ISBN 13: 9781425993535

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2007

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This book might well be considered a UNIVAC (First Computer) for the Lay Apostolate. It departs from all previous treatments of this subject by members of the hierarchy and provides a layman's view of what a vocation to the Lay Apostolate is all about.Mr Sullivan is no novice in this field. His education from grade school through college has been all Catholic. He started early, winning the medal for Religion three times in grade school (really four times, but the nuns wouldn't give it to him again!) He was in the Sodality for four years in High School and president of the Sodality in his senior year in College. He has a brother a priest, a sister a nun and has the following credentials in parish experience: Holy Name Society (president for two years), Legion of Mary, Knights of Columbus, Weekend Retreats Captain (twenty years), Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima (over forty years), Young Adults Parish Social Club (founder and president), parish lector and usher.By far however of all his layman endeavors has been his founding of the Knights of Fatima, Inc. This group of laymen (begun in 1950) has brought the activity of the Lay Apostolate to a new level of accomplishment. It has successfully established in over ten parishes and in two dioceses a religious program promoting First Saturday devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. This program has led to increased attendance at First Saturday Masses by as much as 400%.Mr. Sullivan has an all-pervading theme to his book, which is that the greatest need for the Church today is an ORGANIZED LAY APOSTOLATE. By this he means a lay organization equivalent to some of the great religious orders, like the Jesuits, or Dominicans or Franciscans, except that this organization would be composed solely of laymen and lay women, not religious. He makes a strong case for the absolute necessity of this independent lay organization (never however down-grading the ultimate authority of the hierarchy), and claims that the greatest beneficiary of such a

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425993532
• ISBN 13: 9781425993535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64