(a.) The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
(a.) The state of a layman.
(a.) Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Polling shows that a great majority of the Anglican laity are in favour of Lord Falconer's assisted dying bill, and even some of the bishops I have spoken to here, although they are bitter about what they feel is the unfairness of the argument, are resigned to losing in the long term.
(2) The details also gave succour to critics who say the house of laity has become profoundly unrepresentative.
(3) Philip Giddings, the conservative evangelical who chairs the house of laity, said he was satisfied the new, simplified legislation would be tolerable for his side.
(4) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(5) The problems of the laity and clergy are intertwined, and in the developed world their symptom is obvious: there are not enough of either, and both are ageing rapidly and sustained only by immigration from the south.
(6) In November 2012, both the houses of bishops and of clergy voted for the legislation, but it was rejected by only a few votes in the House of Laity.
(7) The letter read: "We are puzzled, dismayed and very disappointed that for the third time running we have been assigned a bishop of Whitby who does not accept the ordination of women priests … We are aware that some parishes, some clergy, and some of the laity in the Whitby bishopric do not accept the validity of women priests but, as in the rest of the country, a substantial majority of us do.
(8) But there are not enough clergy or laity to serve them, and especially too few Spanish speakers, obliging parishes to try to fill the gap by importing priests from South and Central America.
(9) But it is another example of the way in which the views of a retired bishop with no official position can resonate when they chime with the experience of the ordinary laity.
(10) His teachers in medicine included Corvisart, Bayle, Broussais, and Magendie; he qualified in 1816 with an MD thesis: "On the danger of reading medical text books by the laity"!
(11) The legislation had needed a two-thirds majority in each of the three houses of the General Synod to pass, but, despite comfortably managing that in both the houses of bishops and clergy, it was dealt a fatal blow in the laity, where lay members voted 132 votes in favour and 74 against.
(12) As well as calling on the church to show "real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past", the report also urges it to think about whether it is reasonable to allow lay people to be in sexually active same-sex relationships while requiring celibacy from its clergy and bishops, saying: "In the facilitated discussions it will be important to reflect on the extent to which the laity and the clergy should continue to observe such different disciplines."
(13) Most dentists are heartily sick of the George Bernard Shaw quotation 'The professions are a conspiracy against the laity.'
(14) The legislation, which needed a two-thirds majority in each of the synod's three houses, was passed comfortably in the house of bishops and clergy but scuppered in the laity by just six votes.
(15) We go back to religion, and she says she was surprised when the laity voted against allowing women bishops last year.
(16) It's bad enough for academics, it's worse for the laity.
(17) Bishop of Grantham first C of E bishop to declare he is in gay relationship Read more In effect, there is one standard for the laity – which is to conform to the liberal norms of society – and a double standard for the clergy who are supposed to be celibate, even when they live with same sex partners, if not heterosexually married.
(18) Nato remains undefeated on the battlefield, but Laity wanted to make clear that the “narrative landscape” represented a new and unfamiliar battleground – one in which Nato no longer appeared to hold a clear advantage.
(19) The laity has been the decisive party in the struggle over female bishops, on both sides.
(20) His position on female bishops has prompted one member of the house of laity, Canon Stephen Barney, to propose a motion of no confidence, which will be debated at an extraordinary meeting on 18 January.
Liturgy
Definition:
(a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(2) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
(3) Nobody believes any of this stuff, of course, but it has to be said, rather like a familiar religious liturgy.
(4) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
(5) They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience.
(6) No other court in the past 50 years has allowed public school officials to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god,” attorney Dean Broyles said in a statement.
(7) While stressing that it is not advocating any change to the church's teaching on sexual conduct, it suggests that the house of bishops may wish to consider whether it should issue guidance on liturgy.
(8) Otherwise, there was silence, punctuated only by the comforting murmur of several hundred voices reciting a liturgy they knew by heart.
(9) "Appropriating other people's liturgies," whispered one wry cleric, "does bring certain difficulties."
(10) Yes, just in case you were looking for some spiritually-uplifting sounds to accompany the white smoke, look no further: Spotify have worked with the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy (NDCL) in the United States to come up with 29 pieces of music that they say will "give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer".
(11) A priest hurrying through the liturgy, the commentator at Walthamstow dog track?
(12) And I thought: ‘If you’ve not got a PR operation, you’re obviously not planning to open any time soon.’ But their line was always, ‘It’s about to happen.’ There’s a line in the Anglican liturgy: ‘The hope of glory to come.’ It was like that.” As time went on, she says, the mood of the All Saints neighbourhood came to be defined by the empty expanse of land at its heart.
(13) The group does not propose any specially authorised liturgy for the blessing of same-sex relationships and says the move would not require any change to church teachings.
(14) "The thing that makes evangelical churches popular is the informality, the lack of structure of the service, the fact that they don't use traditional liturgy, and they've got good music that young people love and they engage with.
(15) Speaking at a press conference following the report's publication, Sir Joseph said one consequence of the lack of authorised liturgy was the "room for manoeuvre" when it came to the kind of ceremony priests might be able to offer same-sex couples.
(16) We think of religion as the bible, morality, sacred tradition, doctrine, ritual, liturgy.
(17) The proposals in the church's theological commission report on ordaining gay ministers for a gay marriage liturgy was one of his "worst nightmares", Randall said.
(18) This, and the primacy of the word of God in monastic liturgy, made Hume naturally ecumenically-minded.
(19) At that time, the morning services replicated the experience of the grander sort of public-school chapel, with a robed choir, a liturgy from 1662 and a well-bred congregation lined up on pews.
(20) "It is a consecrated space where important liturgies are celebrated and where popes are elected.