Abstrakt

e panorama of the Council’s thinking about the universal apostolate, sketched
out in brief, is increasingly becoming the property of the people of God: it permeates
the minds and hearts, is reflected in the practice of daily life, in the initiatives
and apostolic undertakings taken, in the way of thinking and acting. It would
be difficult to say, of course, what the actual state of current apostolic activity
in the Church is, if we had separate sociological studies. Nevertheless, it should
be stated and strongly emphasised that the pioneering suggestions of Vincenzo
Palottis, enriched by the experience and reflections of future generations, the
contributions of Newman, Perrone and others, deepened and adapted according
to the demands of the times by the Second Vatican Council, have already become
a lasting heritage and property of the whole people of God, who are becoming
increasingly more aware that they are by their very nature, and therefore must
be in practice, a people who are eminently apostolic.