Your mission does not begin in the sacristy

Sometimes it seems that a committed layperson is, above all, someone who accumulates tasks within the parish. Those services can be valuable, but they do not exhaust the mission. Baptism also sends them to the family, work, culture, and social life. There appear decisions that no priest can make in their place: working with justice, educating with patience, creating something beautiful, caring for a neighbor, or participating responsibly in society. Faith enters those spaces not as an added speech, but by transforming the way of acting. You are not a substitute for the hierarchy or a second-class Christian. You have a responsibility of your own there where perhaps the Church can only be present through you. Your usual setting is not an obstacle to the mission; it is precisely its terrain.