What Should the Laity Be Doing?

Russell Shaw in Crisis

First of all, we need to realize that there are ways for lay people not to respond adequately to the need for a new evangelization. Simply ignoring it is one way, of course. But so is putting so much emphasis on activities within the structures and institutions of the Church--lay ministry, that is--that apostolate in and to the secular world gets short shrift and is virtually ignored.

Puts me in mind of Nancy Brown's comment on adult altar servers, in response to this earlier post.