The laity at a seminar. We are all lay ministers in our own right so long as we are using the gifts of the Holy Spirit to serve the People of God. We need not necessarily be commissioned or appointed as such. This was the “screaming” headline featured in a recent issue of HERALD where Pope Francis spoke to the participants at the Second Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life.
To the best of my knowledge, the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur organised its very first lay ministry formation course in the early 1980s. That was the period after Aggiornamento 1976, when the Church in Peninsular Malaysia started her renewal process. The course was conducted weekly for two years at Cardijn House, Kuala Lumpur, and all parishes were asked to send participants.
Fully empowered with their new knowledge and charged by the Holy Spirit, this first batch of commissioned lay ministers returned to their respective parishes, and thus began the period of laity involvement in the Church. In fact, there are many who are happy just serving in one small area in Church without holding any positions.
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