Lay Consecration

The Holy Spirit consecrates Jesus for a specific mission: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke 4:18-19)

This same Holy Spirit has called the disciples to consecrate themselves and offer their lives so that they could walk in the footsteps of Our Lord Jesus Christ and preach the Good News by being of service to humanity. After this, throughout the ages, there came about various forms of consecrated life. There were the hermits, those who embraced the encloistered life and the religious.

Lately, the Holy Spirit endowed the Church with a valuable gift; He has been calling lay Christians to live an ordinary life in the world, as they consecrate their lives in order to serve as light and sustainment to others in the temporal realities such as the family, education, culture, the place of work and even politics.