A Summary on the Laity in Gaudium et Spes
PAGE 2 (GS 1)
The document opens with the following words:
“The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the people of this age… are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ.” (GS 1)
This is the tone of the whole text.
The Church does not stand apart from the world.
She stands with it.
And because the laity live in the middle of everyday life, they are the ones who carry this closeness of Christ into the world’s real situations.
