Lay Vocations

A Radical Call to Live Our Faith.

  • In Community sharing meals together,
    usually with the whole Community
    sometimes just with the other lay members

  • Sharing what we have!

  • Praying together; lay members of the
    community meet regularly with the consecrated
    brothers and sisters to pray the Divine Office,
    celebrate the Shabbat, and Dance.


The Lay Branch is made up of members of the faithful, men and women, lay (married or single) and clerics (permanent deacons),

Married people who commit to the Community fulfill the vocation proper to the Christian family, in accordance with the doctrine of the Church, and their commitment must intensify the communion of the couple, their educational responsibility towards their children, and also the family's involvement in the life and mission of the Community as well as that of the Church and its evangelical witness in society.

Single people who commit themselves in the Community choose to live a life of prayer, Gospel radicality and service to the Church. Among the single persons in the Community, some may remain open to a vocation to marriage. Others may choose to remain in their single state.

"He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).
This life of intimate union with Christ in the Church is nourished by spiritual aids which are common to all the faithful, especially active participation in the sacred liturgy.(5) These are to be used by the laity in such a way that while correctly fulfilling their secular duties in the ordinary conditions of life, they do not separate union with Christ from their life but rather performing their work according to God's will they grow in that union. (Apostolicam Actuositatem 4)

Community of The Beatitudes 2011