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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2024
The recent movement of apparent restorationism seems to suggest that the Church represents an enclave where people can find a holy place, a narrowing of the universal call to holiness that was the mandate of Vatican II. This is not a task for Christians alone; it is a call for all people to rediscover the true nature of the human being in the world. Such a profoundly worldly vocation makes a radical demand for a holiness grounded on baptism and the charisms with which the Holy Spirit endows the people of God. ‘To be secular is the special characteristic of the laity’ (Lumen gentium, 3). There is a an important rediscovery of the sacred taking place here: Christians are called to transform the world in and through God in a genuine and secular spirituality.
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3 John Paul II, Sacrae Disciplinae Leges, the Apostolic Constitution establishing the new Code of Canon Law, January 25th 1983. Available online at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp_ii_apc_250119_sacrae-disciplinae-leges_en.html [accessed January 21st, 2013].
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27 Karol Wojtyla, Sources of Renewal, (London: Collins, 1980), p. 69. See also John Paul's reflection on this passage of Augustine in Redemptor Hominis: ‘In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human – the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience’ (§ 18).
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29 Ibid., p. 131.
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