Sentences with phrase «laity who»

They liked pious material best; they could market it not only to the numerous laity who could read, but also to the less snobbish members of the clerical and academic world.

But, as Thomas Spalding himself demonstrates in The Premier See, the «ghetto Church» that produced racist parishioners also produced the priests and laity who were at the forefront of Baltimore's integration movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

ministers», in a Parish which Fr Finigan thinks doesn't need them («Eucharistic ministers», it may be said in passing, are frequently among those semi-clericalised laity who busy - body their way into positions of prominence in the Parish, and don't like it when Father decides he is going to exercise priestly leadership in a way which threatens their little world).

However, while this may be increasingly apparent to those who devote a great deal of their vocational time to the serious study of those teachings, it is not so apparent to the millions of unsuspecting Christian laity who, having been so taken by the writings of Lindsey, LaHaye, et al., often dismiss those «centuries of Christian teaching» as «traditions of men.»

In reflecting on that conversation, I realized that the laity who are most active are the very persons who often prefer that their own sons and daughters avoid careers in the church.

It is our intellectual weakness which has produced too few clergy and laity who can effectively analyze and deal with the demoralization in industry and government and society today.

They will be disillusioned by laity who are unaccepting of their ministry.

[6] Now, this Benedicite is on the lips of priests and religious (and laity who pray the Divine Office) as often as several times a week, so it can not be unfamiliar; but is its significance always appreciated?

In addition, the laity who have been subordinated by the state must make religious demands on the church regarding their human situation.

Yet, most evangelical institutions remain firmly committed to the older liberal arts model of formation, fusing it with worldview analysis in order to cultivate an educated Christian laity who can then change society.

Male clergy and laity who want to enable women's ministry often don't know how to get involved or what to do.

The issue was the simplistic thinkers in the clergy and laity who couldn't grasp that complicated matters like the end of life should prompt us to find depth and «flexibility» in what the Church has to say.

In my experience, and I don't think my experience is unique, laity who are in many ways highly educated have frequently not grown beyond their childhood understanding of the faith.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.»

The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.

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.

The responses of laity to preaching and teaching and other pastoral leadership activities are extremely important; pastors referred to «feeling that preaching and teaching are falling on enthusiastic ears,» «the recommitment of the faith by members who had fallen away,» or «helping the laity to use their gifts.»

The episcopate, however, resisted any vision that accorded a greater role to the laity, and feared the laypeople who sought to articulate such a vision.

Those Catholics who have failed to see this up to now, whether they be laity or clergy, need to open their eyes.

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

The monological, «performer» stereotype of conventional preaching, as we have seen, frustrates the clergy, impoverishes the laity, and fails to engage men who are living on the frontier of human thought and action.

Moreover, if the Constitution on the Liturgy emphasizes that we ought to «pray without ceasing», this can hardly apply only to liturgical prayer, especially in the case of the laity, who would not have sufficient time for this; and so it may be concluded that in our daily life private and liturgical prayer need certainly not compete with each other.

This fact is often overlooked by not only the laity of the church, but it is often overlooked by the teachers and preachers, who are responsible for teaching the people.

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.

Those of us who conduct them have come to expect that about a hundred people — clergy and laity — will show up for a one - or two - day regional workshop on worship.

Of course, that may be just fine with some bishops who still believe that the Church is a clerical corporation and the role of the laity is, as the old saying has it, to pray, pay, and obey.

English Puritanism developed an anti-absolutist ideology because it found a relatively strong popular base among the laity but was opposed by the state church, which was closely linked to the king who gave it patronage in return for ideological support.

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

Disgruntled laity will know this and use it to their advantage with the full backing of the bosses who didn't want you in the first place.

There were a few voices in the late sixties and early seventies who spoke of the importance of this cardinal principle (Faith Magazine, for example) and the consequences of overturning it but for very many laity and clergy it was the «hard case» argument that won.

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

I suggest that the fatal weakness in Methodist lay witness is that we have not produced our quota of committed and intellectually competent Christian laity — or clergy — who can grapple with the problems of economics and politics and international affairs.

The majority of the laity are loyal churchmen, but at the same time, they do not see themselves as the special people of God who have a secular task to perform for his whole people.

Significant morale problems exist among segments of the presbyterate who feel closed off from the decision - making process, and failures in catechesis, perhaps to be expected in the wake of a world - shaking event like Vatican II, have left vast portions of the laity barely literate in the fundamentals of the faith.

The number of seminarians has dropped to about 5,500 - hardly enough to replace the many who will soon retire, much less to keep up with the increasing size of the laity.

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary and the seminary professor are mysterious and awesome — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and no place for the laity.

It calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth, including, in my mind, the model of the ordained minister or priest, who inevitably stands in the same relationship to the laity as does the divine image of God in Jesus to the followers of God.

The Theatines sought the reform of the priests who ministered to the rank and file of the laity.

Naturally some of Novak's book has been superseded by events, such as Communism's defeat in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, liberation theology's virtual collapse throughout the Catholic world, and the rise of new generations of bishops and priests who know that economic policy is largely a matter of prudential judgment for the laity.

This kind of attack on Canon Law, with all its privileges over secular law, was «revolutionary» and was felt as a frightening threat even by some laity, who saw the walls of the conventional world crumbling with its disappearance.

While the publication of Luther's 95 theses was intended only for scholarly debate, his challenge to papal authority not only evoked a strong ecclesiastical charge of heresy, but found sympathetic support from the laity, anti-clericals, German nationalists, humanists and the poor and ordinary people who heard him preach, and culminated in his defense by his sovereign, Frederick the Elector of Saxony.

The detail of the argument was not - at issue — it was enough that Luther was challenging authority, Popes and Councils alike, and defending Huss, a heretic known in the popular mind as one who said the laity should receive the wine at communion (not in fact an heretical claim), and whose followers had set up the still flourishing schismatic Church in Bohemia.

Pastors who know how to lead laity into ministry have at least two leadership characteristics in common: They talk about the presence of God in the ordinary situations of daily life, and they are able to structure the life of a congregation so that members are encouraged and able to give ministry to one another.

Though it is difficult to document the exact degree of Revivalism's influence in encouraging a new ideology critical of British rule, it is nevertheless interesting to note the number of leaders and laity from the ranks of Revivalism who made common cause with the leaders of the Revolution.

With this demonstration of priests» faith and the example it would provide, I am convinced there would be strong support not only from the Catholic laity but from other Christians and those who are holding back from a full commitment to the faith because they do not see it being lived sufficiently convincingly.

Does this work wonderfully for the laity too providing the perfect excuse to put off being who and doing what God desires until better understanding?

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.

I think they are clearly saying, «We know that the laity thinks we have a problem, but we, the clergy who are far better than everyone else, and above both civil and canon law, are not at all interested in any serious effort to do anything to resolve it, because to us, it's simply not an issue.

Yet when the laity were interrogated as to the sufficiency of their parson in the role of preacher and teacher, they gave him a favorable report, and one may well conceive that he who could not parse the Latin Mass might be able to instruct his flock in the rudiments of faith and conduct.38