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- noun Plural form of
laic .
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Examples
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I help keep the statistics for our Masses and am in direct contact with the priests who offer them and the laics who request them all over the U.S.A. and Canada.
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They argued that it was better if their average laics at least knew a small number of passages well enouth to quote them after ten years, and therefore use them as guides for good living.
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A personal prelature consists of priests and deacons alone Canon 295 and cannot include any laics, including monks and friars and nuns.
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This Canon merely mentions how laics can "dedicate themselves to the apostolic work of the prelature".
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Subjects would be those laics who are registered in it.
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In the case of S.S.P.X clerics and lay followers, it is possible that some have fallen into schism but no more so than it is possible that some non-S.S.P.X clerics and laics have fallen into schism.
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It also can't include Society non-ecclesiastical laics i.e. most of us, who would have to get permission from the local bishop to have the Society administer their Baptisms and Marriages.
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Capdevila, director de El Matí, cap a un cristianisme de laics aduls, que no quedà aturat en el catecisme infantil.
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It was originally intended for the sons of poor and deserving clerics and laics, but many of the noble governors of the Institution, with an enlarged and rather capricious benevolence, selected all sorts of objects for their bounty.
Vanity Fair 2006
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The Gloss tells us that the passage concerns the plebeians or laics, who having taken upon themselves any religious rule of life, go back again from that profession: they do not admit them into that order and society again.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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