Search results for "Laity" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • between the church hierarchy and the laity. The encyclical affirms that ... The new role of the laity resulted in the foundation of numerous secular ...
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  • of Lima and is venerated by the local laity in Peru. A temple was built ... Luis, Lima, and is venerated by the local laity in Peru. A temple was built ...
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  • developing a Czech liturgy and allowing the laity to administer the Eucharist. ... in both kinds (both bread and wine to priests and laity alike) ...
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  • included male clergy, female clergy, male laity, and female laity. This religious community, like the corresponding Buddhist sangha, did not ...
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  • office. In others, it is performed by the laity, and its exact functions ... danger of death), when anyone including the laity may baptize. ...
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  • offered at all temples, and members of the laity who want to be more involved ... programs to prepare them for leadership positions among the laity ...
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  • in the realm of the behavioral ethics of the laity. It should be emphasized ... There is a strict division between Mandaean laity and the priests ...
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  • Some Japanese Zen laity can also be seen wearing a wagesa, a formal ribbon-shaped garment but also a more simplified type of kesa (robe). ...
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  • which many of the former PCUSA ministers and laity joined), ending the controversy in the PCUSA in favor of the liberals. ===Presbyterian Church ...
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  • manuals popular among medieval Catholic laity. Though their contents were ... practice came an eventual adoption by the laity, who viewed their ecclesiastical ...
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  • both elements of the Eucharist to laity, who had only been permitted to receive the bread. XXVIII. Concerning the Marriage of Priests—a lengthy ...
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  • corruption of the clergy, the rights of the laity, and translation of the scriptures ... and in doctrine, a broadened role for laity (including women), and cooperation ...
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  • to the Word of God," but the laity is not, and other Churches ... from the Catholic Church to give the laity a share of the Blood of Christ ...
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  • of the church more clear and accessible to the laity. However, these journals do not add or remove anything from the Catholic teaching, but rather ...
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  • his brother monks (and the resident laity) into a righteous lifestyle. One of the innovative means that he used to achieve that end was an extensive ...
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  • important issues (from the role of the laity to the modification of the ... and the role of the laity Apostolicam Actuositatem. [http://www.vatican ...
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  • clerics, officials of the Vatican, and distinguished laity. ... was moved giving a reduced area for the laity. The transenna is surmounted ...
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  • sharers of ordination, are to be reckoned among the Laity." ===Eight century: Hispanicus error=== The second movement of Adoptionism, called ...
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  • devotional practice by monks and laity alike. Monasteries varied ... an occupation, they depend entirely on the laity for their sustenance. In ...
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  • church (synodical meetings of clergy, extended to laity after 1886) authority which had been eroded. ==Controversies== In 1847 Wilberforce became ...
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  • validity of his consecration but many of the laity resented the emperor's meddling in the affairs of the Roman church. Constantius paid his first ...
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  • of their wealth, and transferring it to the laity. This, he held, was the surest and quickest method of satisfying the civil authorities and ...
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  • ) was the dominion of the local clergy and laity. Over time, the ecclesiastical ... instead to consult with the clergy and laity of the community in question ...
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  • the election of Damasus, while the deacons and laity supported Ursinus. The two rival popes were thus elected simultaneously, in separate locations ...
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  • quot; doctrine was especially popular among the laity, as it provided a concrete image of salvation that was easily encapsulated in religious iconography ...
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  • church and seems to place himself among the laity in his De Exhortatione Castitatis ... He also believed that in an emergency, the laity can give the baptism. ...
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  • found in Orthodox churches today. It separates the laity in the nave from the priests preparing the sacraments at the altar. It is usually composed of ...
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  • caused embarrasment when the Church admonished laity to practice chastity. A church that was itself wealthy, too, often neglected spiritual concerns ...
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  • Foot washing (also known as pedilavium) is a religious rite observed by several faiths including Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Within Christianity ...
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  • Great Vows (maha-vrata) and those of the laity are called Small Vows (anu ... his or her thoughts, words and deeds. The laity must avoid professions which ...
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  • holding clergy to a higher standard than the laity both in terms of their personal moral conduct, and knowledge of theology. He approved the rule of ...
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  • like the rosary may have begun as a practice by the laity to imitate the monastic Liturgy of the Hours, during the course of which the monks prayed the ...
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  • both kinds (bread and wine to priests and laity alike). ... :#The same law for laity and priests (see Christie-Murray, 119). ...
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  • over the protests of others in the Roman clergy and laity, possibly because he had received baptism while deathly ill and had not received the sacrament ...
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  • reverent bishops and clergy, and to the monks and laity throughout Alexandria, Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis. …We were anxious that you should ...
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  • or doff their kipot. Furthermore, the Catholic laity may not wear a skullcap, while all Jews may wear one. ===Druze=== Among followers of the ...
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  • years, there has been a higher representation of laity in both the faculty and student body. Since the Gregorian is a pontifical university, the ...
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  • in the mountains, far away from the court and the laity in the capital. The irregular topography of these sites forced Japanese architects to rethink ...
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  • is the one source for compassion of the laity found in contemporary accounts. The first continuation expresses as much outrage at the hanging ...
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  • that empowered the clergy and disempowered the laity. Gutenberg's famous "Gutenberg Bible" was the Latin Vulgate but it was not long ...
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  • A commission composed of bishops, theologians and laity had been established by John XXIII for the purpose of reviewing the teaching on birth ...
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  • was a way to direct the military energies of the laity so that this served the Church's purposes. One answer presented itself in the shape of ...
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  • these movements gained some support among the laity (including members of the Spanish aristocracy), they were repudiated by Charlemagne and Pope Hadrian ...
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  • decades, however, a minority of Reform rabbis and laity have come to affirm beliefs including pantheism and deism. ===Jewish law === ...
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  • Evening Sun Reprinted by Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) / Westchester. Retrieved October 14, 2013. A second strain of the criticism of Columbus ...
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  • Saints as a distinct class of believers from the laity. In the Belgian province of East-Flanders (Aalst) and the west part of West Flanders (Ypres ...
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  • The practice of withholding the cup from the laity was confirmed (twenty-first session) as one which the Church Fathers had commanded for good and ...
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  • In modern Orthodox Judaism, the laity immerse themselves on the day prior to the day of Yom Kippur and often do so before the three pilgrimage ...
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  • consent of the pope, the increased role of the laity for holiness, and a generalized call for all humans to belong to the Church. Even before ...
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  • explained his views in such a way that the laity could understand it. He wrote ... jewel of the clergy has become the toy of the laity." ...
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