This article focuses on a matter of reference as to the resistances to lay protagonism: in the reality of sacred power in the Church. As along ecclesial history, ministers have been given a degree of sacredness and power, that by times, makes it diffi cult for the real insertion of the lay community into the Church. Also, the concentration of pontifi cal power is apparent. Historical shadows are confronted with the Gospel proposal: Jesus, a lay man, taught his disciples - as by examples and words - that authority is not the exercising of hierarchical power. The community which arose after Easter, contemplates in its reality, a pluralism of services and ministries. As by such standing matters, we are then bound for bringing up some higher clues that direct to the decentralization of ecclesial power: complementation between the institutional and charismatic power; the implementation of sinodality and of freedom paths; the raising of communities of a human-sized ideal; the promotion of a ministerial Church and of the leading role of the lay people; the self-consciousness of a Church as server of the World.