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lay brother n (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a man who has taken the vows of a religious order but is not ordained and not bound to divine office How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I wish that some Catholic magazine would publish articles featuring dedicated lay sisters and brothers and the ministries in which they are evangelizing, educating, and healing people, especially the poor. In the convent, she said, there were lay sisters who were subordinate to the highly educated "choir nuns. Although the radical Revolution confiscated the hospitals' endowments and expelled the nuns and lay sisters, the Napoleonic regime reconstituted the former and restored the latter. |
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