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How to use laity in a sentence

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Their members took the traditional monastic vows, but devoted their lives to pastoral work, aiming to produce a well-instructed and devout laity.
For the sake of successful cooperation the respective responsibilities of clergy and laity must be clearly demarcated.
They hope to raise enough support to force the issue when Greek Orthodox clergy and laity convene next year in Los Angeles.
In a church rich with religious orders, it is peculiar for someone to write as if the Roman clergy and laity did not know the difference.
I am rather asserting that the laity feels that church leadership does not know what it is talking about.
Dr Ryan has emphasised throughout his period as bishop the importance of involving the laity in parish and church affairs.
Some of our parishes are dull little affairs presided over by a fearful clergy and laity.
Still, some way must be found for the clergy and laity of the world to be involved in the choice.
Today divorced and remarried clergy and laity serve the church faithfully as full partners.
Never did Shaw speak a truer word, that all professions are conspiracies against the laity.
He was joined by a great contingent of the local faithful and laity, all generously lending themselves to this historic afternoon in Loughglynn.
We need a council of the Church that includes both the laity and the bishops and the clergy to get at this problem root and branch.
Nevertheless, priests and laity restored the mass at the mere breath of royal suggestion.
The laity could only stand and watch from the nave while the sacred rites were being performed.
The laity they mistaught for all those long years know only what they were mistaught.
For instance the Franciscans and Dominicans are known to have popularised the practice with the laity as early as the eleventh century.
The laity, however, reserved their deepest respect for the celibate, highly-educated Franciscan friars.
The conversation usually revolves around questions about episcopal leadership and the role of the laity.
He was, to be sure, was a loose cannon given to pinheaded statements urging laity to not go to Mass.
In times of crisis, leaders are needed who can inspire both clergy and laity.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He seems to say that it is right for the laity to make an offering of their bodies by burning but not for bhikshus.
The laity had no ambition to take upon themselves the burdens of the clergy.
But in the hands of the laity much that Weismann did say is misunderstood and misstated and much that he never said is inferred.
A leading feature of the Beghard propaganda was the circulation among the laity of written tracts and devotional works.
But there is, I fear, some justification for such a criticism from the laity.
Charlemagne, in France, forbid the taking of usury either by priests or laity.
These take thought, at least ostensibly or permissively, for the temporal welfare of the laity, as well as for their own.
They are the priests of a religion, and can never descend to the charges of the laity.
Not only monks and priests should be allowed to teach, but also the laity.
It is a personal Prelature and, canonically, therefore not an association of laity though it was founded to serve them.
The primers were books for the private devotion of the laity.
There were magistrates and courts of law for the offences of the laity.
He is still the Great Erastian, the protagonist of laity against clergy.
Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it.
As presented, his argument appears to be that the decline in the fortunes of the church is entirely down to apathy on the part of the laity.
Their apparel is indifferent, so it be dissonant from the laity.
And as for your Latin service, what are we of the laity the better for it?
While they governed the laity, the laity had no power over them.
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