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Se com "condição laical" se exprime melhor a complexidade da vocação e função dos leigos na Igreja, “estado laical” é expressão mais precisa usada pelo concílio Vaticano II (LG 30. AA 2). Deve ser definida pela sua contraposição aos outros estados eclesiais: o clerical (dos ministros ordenados) e o religioso (LG 30.31). Quer a unidade
e comunhão da Igreja quer o ministério apostólico dos Doze são originariamente constitutivos da Igreja. O mistério da Igreja na sua unidade comporta, porém, como ícone do Deus Trindade, o dinamismo protológico da criação pelo Pai, o dinamismo soteriológico da redenção por Jesus Cristo e o dinamismo escatológico da santificação e consumação pelo Espírito Santo. Podemos ver cada um dos três estados eclesiais – laical,
clerical, religioso – marcado por um determinado carisma ao serviço de cada um desses dinamismos. É neste sentido que a “índole secular” dos cristãos leigos os insere na comunhão eclesial por um serviço de evangelização do mundo.
If in "lay condition" we best express the complexity of the vocation and function of the laity in the Church, ‘lay state’ is the more precise expression used by the 2nd Vatican Council (LG 30. AA 2). It has to be defined in relation to the other ecclesial states: clerical (of the ordained ministers) and religious (LG 30.31). Both the unity and communion of the Church and the apostolic ministry of the Twelve have been, from its origins, constituents of the Church. The mystery of the Church in its unity acts, however, as an icon of God the Trinity, the protological dynamism of creation by the Father, the soteriological dynamism of redemption through Jesus Christ and the eschatological dynamism of sanctification and consummation through the Holy Spirit. We may view each of these ecclesial states – lay, clerical, religious – as marked by a particular charisma in the service of each of these dynamisms. It is in this sense that the ‘secular character’ of lay Christians places them in the ecclesial communion for the service of evangelising the world.
If in "lay condition" we best express the complexity of the vocation and function of the laity in the Church, ‘lay state’ is the more precise expression used by the 2nd Vatican Council (LG 30. AA 2). It has to be defined in relation to the other ecclesial states: clerical (of the ordained ministers) and religious (LG 30.31). Both the unity and communion of the Church and the apostolic ministry of the Twelve have been, from its origins, constituents of the Church. The mystery of the Church in its unity acts, however, as an icon of God the Trinity, the protological dynamism of creation by the Father, the soteriological dynamism of redemption through Jesus Christ and the eschatological dynamism of sanctification and consummation through the Holy Spirit. We may view each of these ecclesial states – lay, clerical, religious – as marked by a particular charisma in the service of each of these dynamisms. It is in this sense that the ‘secular character’ of lay Christians places them in the ecclesial communion for the service of evangelising the world.
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GALVÃO, H. Noronha - A condição laical no contexto dos Estados Eclesiais. Didaskalia. Lisboa. ISSN 0253-1674. 37:1 (2007) 281-297
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Faculdade de Teologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa