A Summary on the Laity in Gaudium et Spes
PAGE 5 GS 23-32
The Council looks honestly at the fractures in society — injustice, conflict, inequality, loneliness — and then calls Christians to be instruments of healing.
This is not only a task for specialists.
It is a task for every baptised person.
Your apostolate becomes visible when you:
build peace in your family,
act with fairness at work,
stand up for the vulnerable,
choose reconciliation over resentment,
and bring compassion into places that feel cold or harsh.
This is how the world begins to change.
