Sentences with phrase «laity in»

This decline has presented an opportunity to call forth the laity in new and exciting ways, especially with respect to school leadership.

In 380 at the Council of Laodicea election by the people 8 was expressly forbidden (canon 13), though the rights of the laity in election survived in many places, especially in the West.

The motion was moved by Jayne Ozanne, who represents laity in the Diocese of Oxford, with amendments moved by Canon Dr Jamie Harrison (Durham) and the Revd Andrew Dotchin (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich) which were carried.

In a remarkable way the Church succeeded also in enlisting the laity in her service.

Referring to its founder in his penultimate book, John Paul II noted: «In October 2002 I had the joy of canonizing Josemaria Escriva Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, a zealous priest, and an apostle to the laity in modern times» (Pope John Paul II, Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, 117)-- not the words a Roman Pontiff would use to describe the founder of a «Catholic sect».

They have made considerable headway among both clergy and laity in this country.

A renewed partnership of church and committed Catholic laity in the university, business and professional worlds would create communal pride, a rallying point for concerted action, and an impetus for talented young people aspiring to a career in service to others.

In conclusion, Fr Pacwa's book should provoke any priest to ponder what it is he is doing in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, and it should be a great help to the laity in understanding the abiding presence of Our Lord in the action of the Mass and in Eucharistic adoration.

The responsibilities of the laity in this exchange are the same as those of the preacher.

At last we come to the goal of all institutional church life - the ministry of the laity in the world.

The B.F.C. formerly had a staff member and an office in Los Angeles, and a continuing committee of clergy and interested laity in the industry comprised the so - called West - Coast Committee.

The clergy and the laity in one church that had an alcoholic in a key lay position spent an inordinate amount of energy «ignoring» the fact that he was not doing his job on a very important committee.

We are all laity in regard to each other's profession or trade, and we constantly need to remind ourselves of this.

Composed partly of parents with problems, it also has a heavy preponderance of the laity in training which figures so strikingly in all of Wesley's endeavors.

The same goes for other movements and yearnings in pre-conciliar Catholicism: the active participation of the laity in the mission of the Church, the theological return to the biblical and patristic sources of the faith, religious freedom as an inalienable feature of human dignity.

Whether the laity in prevailingly liberal churches can be shown to have more sensitive consciences than others and a greater sense of compulsion in serving their fellow men, I do not know.

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

Seminaries can function as creative centers for the continuing education of the laity in the workplace.

Church professionals have much to learn from laity in the corporate world who profess allegiance to both the church and the corporation.

In response to his critique, I would only say that while I quite agree that the sociology of belief often matters more than «popes and bishops and ecclesiastical politics,» by his own admission, those politics delivered «confusion» to the laity in the wake of Vatican II, and I fear that in the age of Francis they risk doing so again.

In the eyes of the faithful the loss of Latin in the liturgy is perhaps the most clearly defining outcome of the Council and one of the most criticised aspects of its aftermath, despite its laudable intention to create greater, truer participation of the laity in public worship.

An important by - product of the involvement of laity in mission is that better - trained lay and clergy leadership will be required.

In fact, there is venerable precedent for a role by the laity in the selection of bishops.

Some think it controversial that the Board says that «greater involvement by the laity in the selection of bishops could help ensure that future bishops are pastors, prophets, and men of honor, and not mere management functionaries.»

Volf believes that classical Catholic and Orthodox theologians have harnessed their trinitarian views to a certain kind of ecclesiology, resulting in two ecclesial practices that Volf finds unacceptable and potentially repressive: the exclusive and indispensable sacerdotal office of the bishop or priest and the disqualification of laity in the «order of salvation.»

Recognizing that zero tolerance is a «blunt instrument,» the report says, «Nonetheless, the Board believes that for the immediate future the zero - tolerance policy is essential to the restoration of the trust of the laity in the leadership of the Church, provided that it is appropriately applied.»

As it stands, the Roundtable is a collaborative effort of wealthy East Coast Catholics, academics, editors, and Church activists who are determined to devise a strategy for establishing a major role for the laity in the governance of the Catholic Church in this country.

If, therefore, we discuss future human structures and institutions of the Church which would make possible a more active participation of the laity in the decisions of ecclesiastical authorities, such efforts should not be discredited in advance by saying that they would remain in any case subject to the good pleasure of the hierarchy.

In his Diary entry for 6 September 1979, Archbishop Romero wrote that Opus Dei «carries out a silent work of deep spirituality among professional people, university students and labourers... I think this is a mine of wealth for our Church — the holiness of the laity in their own profession.»

The arrangement, moreover, confirms the stereotype of the relation between clergy and laity in which the Word is removed from the people and made the preacher's exclusive sphere of responsibility.

Strangely enough, clergy frequently have to catch up with the laity in this area.

Eusebius — one of the early Church fathers — encouraged the laity in the Church to seek the common good in all they did in the wider community.

It is often said that we have the most highly educated laity in the Church's history.

When asked whether there was a place for the laity in the Church, Newman replied that we (meaning clerics and theologians) would look pretty silly without them.

Not exact matches

«I was surprised and gratified that so many people told me they were hoping we would be successful; it is clear by all the interest focused on our efforts that many of our laity understand the need for and importance of such a cathedral for Catholics in Orange County.»

Throughout the book, «laity involvement» means a desire for less episcopal authority, a diminution of the sacramental priesthood, and a conviction that the special place accorded to Latin in the liturgy and in the universal Church is a threat to «the Spirit of Vatican II.»

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

It voted 121 to 53 to appoint Mr Curry, while the House of Deputies - where clergy and laity can vote - voted 800 to 12 in favour of appointing him.

Yes they were all equally brothers, not staggered in laity with one man giving guidance to all.

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.&raquIn his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.&raquin the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, supersti - tion, bigotry and persecution..»

In part, one suspects, because the longstanding divisions in Chinese Catholicism between regime opponents and regime - friendly laity and clergy have sapped the Church's evangelical energIn part, one suspects, because the longstanding divisions in Chinese Catholicism between regime opponents and regime - friendly laity and clergy have sapped the Church's evangelical energin Chinese Catholicism between regime opponents and regime - friendly laity and clergy have sapped the Church's evangelical energy.

• «A Catholic Call to Civility in Public Life» is issued by a distinguished list of Catholic laity, led by Thomas Melady, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.

Marital circumstances, whether of clergy or laity, are dealt with «pastorally» and «nonjudgmentally,» which usually means that normative morality is suspended in deference to cultural accommodation and the avoidance of «giving offense.»

Still others will speak about Syria's many martyred laity and clergy, including two Orthodox bishops — Boulos Yazigi and Mar Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim — who disappeared in April 2013, and a twelve - year - old evangelical boy and his father who were crucified for their Christian conversion last summer.

Ordained clergy preside at the sacraments and teach the lay leaders in order to equip the laity for their ministries.

Church officials, delegates and their families, support staff, and laity crowd the meeting in numbers that encourage local restaurants to create vegetarian menus and advertise that sabbath meals may be paid for in advance.

Cardinal Law, for one, appeared — publicly, at least — to be aloof from the complaints and warnings of victim - survivors and their intimates, as well as from the concerns of laity and clergy in his archdiocese.

Her detailed study highlights the importance of an engaged laity and shows the importance of strong episcopal leadership, and, although she resists the conclusion, she demonstrates the effectiveness of memorizing a catechism in teaching basic principles.

And it is not how Christian laity are called to live in the modern world.