The ministers called upon the laity to donate to the homeless shelter. From LearnThat.org.
The term laity signifies the aggregation of those Christians who do not form part of the clergy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
The laity is a tremendously heterogeneous group from which an arbitrary sample cannot be assumed to be representative. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
The distinct specification of the bread and the wine disproves the Romish doctrine of concomitancy, and exclusion of the laity from the cup. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The chalice for the laity was the only point they wished to retain. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
In this way the laity was to be the guarantee of the emperor's independence of the episcopate. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
When Erasmus visited England he found that the laity were the best read and the best behaved in. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
This anti-ecclesiastical bias on the part of the laity was the dominant factor in the Reformation under Henry VIII. From Wordnik.com. [Henry VIII.] Reference
Though these Epistles had difficulties, the laity were all to hear them read (1Pe 4: 11; 2Pe 3: 10; even the very young, 2Ti 1: 5; 3: 15). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The problem is that those who want to do something to help to move things on, namely the laity and some clergy, have no real vehicle for doing so. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
But for our purposes today, we will consider these matters from the perspective of our target audience, namely the laity who wish to privately recite the breviary. From Wordnik.com. [More on the Divine Office: Private Recitation by the Laity] Reference
In these circumstances it is understandable that the reaction of much of the laity is a bit like that of a child who has found that a loved parent cannot be trusted. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
When Erasmus visited England he found that the laity were the best read and the best behaved in Europe, while the clergy were gluttonous, profligate, and avaricious. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude]
Pain in the back is often attributed by the laity to. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
"Priests may kill the laity to preserve their goods.". From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Ignorance into which the Greek clergy plunged the laity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Their best hope is that the laity will hold them to their word. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary: The Wound Is Not Healed] Reference
Churchmen and the laity are very numerous, your name is on every one's tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
There is still disagreement between socially activist clergy and conservative laity. From Wordnik.com. [A House Divided] Reference
The million-dollar question, then, is this: does the Catholic laity care what its bishops say?. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Soul Searching] Reference
Here Edward I. met a large gathering of clergy and laity, and demanded half their possessions. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
They were patronized by clergy and laity alike, to whom the occasion was a sort of yearly picnic. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
The Withholding of the cup from the laity, lest a single drop of Christ's blood should be spilled. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
He exhorts both priests and laity to their respective duties and recommends to all humility and watchfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision] Reference
Medical men and scientists became interested in the performance, and the laity watched the faster through curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
Nor is this tendency confined to professional thinkers and theologians, it is affecting the common mind of the laity. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
The triple cord being emblematic of the three estates — clergy, nobles, and laity — in whose unity consisted the strength of. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
In former times the Brahman was supposed to confine himself to priestly duties, learning the Vedas and giving instruction to the laity. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Returning to the crisis of the pulpit-pew gap, what we come to is not a commitment to a better educated laity or a less educated clergy. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Derr: Faith and Theology as Liturgy: The Work of the People in Faith-Formation] Reference
"It seems, then, that it is simply a matter of ignorance with the laity that your system has not become universally adopted," interposed. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
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