Noun:

कोणत्याही विशिष्ट उपजीविकेच्या किंवा शिष्यवृत्तीच्या बाहेरील लोक,

laity's Usage Examples:

efforts to reform the clergy, to establish schools and colleges, and to catechise the laity, were the inspiration for many later reformers.

was to unite Catholics, both clergy and laity, in the warfare against intemperance; and thus to improve religious, social, and domestic conditions.

When a second 'Day of Prayer for Peace in the World' was held, in 2002, it was condemned as confusing the laity and compromising to false religions.

He expressed his belief that “the church of the next millennium will be called the 'church of the laity' .

"spiritual" in the sight of God: That the pope or bishop anoints, makes tonsures, ordains, consecrates, or dresses differently from the laity, may make.

From its beginnings, this Institution has in fact striven, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and in society, but also to put it into practice.

When the immediate disciples of the saint had become an order bound by the religious vows, it became necessary to provide for the great body of laity, married men and women, who could not leave the world or abandon their avocations, but still were part of the Franciscan movement and desired to carry out in their lives its spirit and teaching.

It maintained that the Eucharist should be administered under both kinds – as both bread and wine – to all the congregation, including the laity.

Pastor Bonus also continued Paul's expansion of the membership of congregations, allowing priests, deacons, the religious and the laity to be members of certain congregations and establishing consultors, experts appointed to the dicasteries of the Roman Curia to provide opinions, either singly or collectively, for particular issues when required.

laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform various religious rites.

The clergy and laity of Mainz desired to have the powerful Konrad of Cologne as their new archbishop.

consociationes christifidelium) is a group of baptized persons, clerics or laity or both together, who, according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law, jointly.

Some professed religious were offended by the assuming of religious status without the commitment to a rule, while the laity resented the implicit disapproval of marriage and other markers of secular life.

Synonyms:

secular, the great unwashed, layman, masses, layperson, people, hoi polloi, multitude, mass, temporalty,

Antonyms:

poor people, uninitiate, distributive, clergyman, clergy,