A Response To The Second Vatican Council
After the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, the ideas born out of the Council, especially the decree Apostolicam Actuositatem, about the apostolic work of the laity, began to influence Figari's spiritual director, Fr. Constancio Bollar.
Among other prescriptions, the Apostolicam Actuositatem suggests that:
1. the laity to "lead non-believers to the faith and to instruct, strengthen, and encourage the faithful to a more fervent life."
2. "modern conditions apostolate be broadened and intensified…"
3. "the laity must take up the renewal of the temporal order as their own special obligation. Led by the light of the Gospel and the mind of the Church and motivated by Christian charity, they must act directly and in a definite way in the temporal sphere."
4. A special emphasis be placed on the example given by the Virgin Mary as the model for the laity and their type of "spiritual and apostolic life".
The SCV believe that the Second Vatican Council (or Vatican II) has a great significance for the Catholic Church and the world in the 21st Century. They believe that contemporary society has a "culture of death", secularism and functional agnosticism that threaten humankind. The followers believe in addressing these issues through Christian-based solutions.
Read more about this topic: Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
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