An extra-ordinary distinctiveness

We live in societies that hunger and thirst for spirituality. Todaywearewitnessing theresurgenceof 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. Sorne itineraries are offered in order to live the faith today in present-day societies and to be credible and audacious witnesses of the Cospel. 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. Elisa Estévez López, Doctor in Theology (University of Deusto, Bilbao) and a graduate in Biblical Sciences (Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome), is a Full Professor in the Department of Sacred Scripture and Church History at the Pontifical University of Comillas (Madrid).