LAITY COUNCIL

Laity is a term that applies to the non-ordained members of the Body of Christ. Lay women and men are those individuals at work in the world, transforming society towards the image of Christ Jesus. In fact, "lay people, too, sharing in the priestly, prophetical and kingly office of Christ, play their part in the mission of the whole people of God in the Church and in the World," according to the Second Vatican Council in Apostolicam Actuositatem (The Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity), no. 2, 1965.