Catholic Word of the Day: LAITY, 10-07-09

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LAITY

The faithful who are not in holy orders and do not belong to a religious state approved by the Church.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

[Salvation]

Common knowledge to all of us -- but it's what came up by random.

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Book of Zechariah	Temple (biblical)	Capsula
Holy Mary	Anaphora	Diana of the Ephesians
Evangelism	Eucharistic Oblation	Last Judgment
Veneration of Images	Aggiornamento	Pectoral Cross
Dark Night of the Soul	Solitude	Domestic Prelate
Incense Boat	Clothing of Religious	Laity

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[BobbyT]

Is this where we get terms like “layman”?

[Straight Vermonter]

Salvific Will	Holy Spirit	Transplantation of Organs
Spiritual Espousals	Addiction	Coenobium
Irascible Appetite	Development of Doctrine	Equiprobabilism
Advocate	Latency Period	Seven Sacraments
Rosary	Epiklesis/Epiclesis	Consubstantiation
Restitution	Tabgha	Our Lady of Divine Love
Excommunication	The Holy Pillar	Imperfect Contrition
White Russian Byzantines	Lust	Pursuivants
La Salette	Liturgy	Andacollo
Kings, Book of	Physiologus	Old Catholics
Baltimore Catechism	Armagh, Book of	Nature
Eulogia	Orders, Sacrament of	Missionary
Dominus Vocbiscum	Ichthus-Fish	Abbacy of St.Jerome
Invalid	Doctrinal Demythology	Metaphysics
Ecclesia Docens	Apostolic Signatura	Octaves
Religion as feeling	Temperament	Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Congregation for Catholic Education	Sponsor	Mystery Play
Paschal Candle	Imitation of Christ	Voluntarism
Matter, Sacramental	Notion	Chancel
Gabbatha	Gregorian Masses	Ordo
Resolution of Amendment	Supreme Evil	Archives, Vatican
Pride	Solovyevism	Natural Law
Revealed Law	Presbyter	First Saturdays
Alma Redemptoris Mater	Divorce	Jubilee
Procession	Teilhardism	Hysteron Proteron
Bodily Immortality	Vicar Forane	Intercommunion, Eucharistic
Proclamation	Consecration to the Sacred Heart	Nominalism
Rules of Conscience	St. John Lateran	Hermeneutics
Doctrinal Universalism	Good Friday	Our Father
Soul of the Church	Latin Cross	Book of Sentences
Liber Pontificalis	Paraclete	People of God
Bodily Resurrection	Cardinal Electors	Subsidiarity
Striking the Breast	Transfinalization	Ordinary
Titular Sees	Wake	Knowledge
Polygenism	Sede Vacante	Peace Plate or Tablet
Heroic Act	Abbey Nullius	Vulgate
Founder	Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Vow
Impassibility	Vitandus	Dedication of the Months
Solemn Vows	Species	Dark Night of the Soul
Social Sin	Dialectical Materialism	Pharisaical Scandal
Inquisition	Precedence	Holy Chrism
Quietism	Natural Family Planning (practice)	Primitive Religion
Cleopas	Inputation	Solemn Profession
Intrinsic Goodness	Charisma	Luminous Rays
Sampietrini	Lyre	John Mark
Alphabetic Psalms	Sorrow	Categorical Imperative
Ammonian Sections	Icxc Nika	Interstices
Ave Regina Caelorum	Hyperdulia	Crosier
St Paul's Outside the Walls	Doctrinal Pluralism	Bodmer Codex
Liturgiae Instaurationes	Cardinal Electors	Theocracy
Intrinsic Evidence	Internal Grace	Aquila
Book of Zechariah	Temple	Capsula
Holy Mary	Anaphora	Diana of the Ephesians
Evangelism	Eucharistic Oblation	Last Judgment
Veneration of Images	Aggiornamento	Pectoral Cross
Dark Night of the Soul	Solitude	Domestic Prelate
Incense Boat	Clothing of Religious	Laity

[Kolokotronis]

Interesting that Fr. John would define the laity by what they are not. I’d have thought the definition might have been “One of the four orders of The Church, namely, the hierarchs, monastics, lower clergy and the People of God.” Perhaps the Orthodox notion of what the laity are in The Church is fundamentally different from the Latin notion?

[Salvation]

Probably.

[Salvation]

I like your definition.

I don’t think the Roman church would have the same names, but I agree with what you have said.