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How To Use laity In A Sentence

• With other controversial issues such as slavery and women's ordination, laity and clergy could find Bible verses to help Spirit-led changes.
• The Church and the laity were increasingly active in charity work.
• Now the three swords, now and anciently borne before the king at his coronation, were known as the sword of the clergy, the sword of the laity, and the third (curtana), which has no point, the sword of mercy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
• The sacerdotal role of the Christian laity, whose spiritual sacrifice and virtuous life makes a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, is placed in complete opposition to the formal procedures of the Roman clergy.
• Another aspect of the plan is to make the church, including the laity, more outward-looking and able to engage in evangelism. Diocese of BC: 10 second evangelism training « Anglican Samizdat
• The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
• In the synods held under St. Cyprian, to deal with the lapsed, and in the synod of 256, which considered the question of re-baptism, there were present not only the bishops, but many priests and deacons, and even a very large representation of the laity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• It recognizes the validity of all Evangelical orders, confirmed in the laying on of hands of the presbytery; and holds communion with, and exchanges pulpits with, all Evangelical Protestant Churches, and receives from them by letters dimissory, clergy and laity without reordination or reconfirmation, and dismisses to them, as to parishes in her own communion.
• Liturgical worship was increasingly performed by clergy, with the cantors, for the laity; and the clergy were more heard than seen.
• He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorial powers even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience; into all conduct which had given scandal; into all actions which, though they escaped the law, might appear contrary to good morals. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary