Volunteer Anyone?

I prefer the AA model of organization as opposed to the operative one in the Catholic Church.  Why?  In AA everyone is in charge of making the organization, the local group function.  There are really no permanent givers and takers.  At first one is a taker because they are such a mess.  But if they stay, they begin to do some of the work.  If you just show up when it suits you, soon enough you will drop out and probably go back to your misery.  On the other hand, the Catholic model is to pray for vocations of priest and nuns so they can do the work while everyone else comes and goes as it suits them.  The hierarchical model suits this modus operandi.  The elderly who used to volunteer and take up positions of leadership are being replaced by people for whom volunteering is something, well, old people did.  Parishes hire lay people but the model stays the same.  The salaried and the ordained, or professed do the work.  AA is full of people who know they need AA and will do lots to make AA function.  There is no hierarchy around.  I am not so sure that Catholics have this same sense of urgency.