AN EXTRA-ORDINARY DISTINCTIVENESS

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INTRODUCTION. BEING THE SALT OF THE EARTH: LAY SPIRITUALITY IN THE THOUGHT OF PEDRO POVEDA. Elisa Estevez López. KNOWING, LOVING AND FOLLOWING CHRIST: INCARNATION AND EASTER MYSTERY IN THE SCHOOL OF LOVE. Carmen Aparicio Valls. PRAYER IS THE ONLY STRENGTH. CONTEMPLATIVE MEN AND WOMEN IN HISTORY. Rosario V. Moreno Rodríguez and Raquel Pérez Sanjuán. STUDY AND SCIENCE AT THE SERVICE OF THE KINGDOM. Tusta Aguilar García and Camino Cañón Loyes. I BELIEVED THIS IS WHY I SPOKE: WITH LIFE, WORDS AND WORKS. Elisa Estevez López. GENTLENESS, A CHALLENGE FOR BELIEVERS TODAY. Elisa Estevez López. A BELIEVER WAY OF LIVING THE PROFESSION. María Dolores Martín Blanco. “SO THAT THE WORLD CREATES” AN ASSOCIATED LAITY BOUND BY CHARITY. Arantxa Aguado Arrese. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

We live in societies that hunger and thirst for spirituality. Today we are witnessing the resurgence of the human being's search to give value and meaning to one's own life, and a sign of this is the demand to find spaces where to cultivate interiority, the taste for spirituality. The paths offered are very diverse. This work reflects on the lay spirituality proposed by Pedro Poveda. Some itineraries are offered in order to live the faith today in present-day societies and to be credible and audacious witnesses of the Gospel. Poveda proposes a way of being, a way of being present and committing oneself that makes visible, in daily life, the extra-ordinary distinctiveness of those who walk in the footsteps of the Risen Lord.