Service in the Village
Service in the Village
Question
What should we do regarding the village ministry when the problem is that there is no person in charge?
Answer
Where there is no person in charge, each person should act according to his conscience until someone is appointed.
However, you may ask the Church to appoint a person in charge. If there is no church in the village, contact the nearest church in the nearest town, or contact the Diocese so that it may supervise the ministry and appoint a person in charge.
Your question, however, raises an earlier one: How was the ministry established in the first place, and how did it begin?
It must have begun through individual efforts apart from the Church. This is not ecclesiastically appropriate. The ministry should always be under the supervision of the Church, with its knowledge and guidance. Otherwise, we cannot ensure the soundness of a ministry that operates in such an unstructured manner—without a person in charge and without the Church’s oversight—whether in its establishment, the appointment of teachers, their preparation, or in matters concerning curricula, pictures, and the like.
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