What‚ one may ask‚ does the Year of the Laity signify? To answer this query is to know initially the meaning of LAITY. Laity refers to all the people who are not members of the clergy or men not ordained for religious service. Simply‚ the word laity refers to layman of the religious faith not belonging to the clergy. For you and me and for all Filipinos for that matter who belong to the Mother Church of the Catholic faith‚ laity refers to the vast majority of the Filipinos who profess the Catholic
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Both the sixteenth canon from the Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council and the second of St. Francis’ edicts from The Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi mention what the members of their groups ought to wear‚ respectively being the clergy and the Franciscans. The first document set forth restrictions on the apparel of clergymen‚ whereas the document states the dress code for Franciscan friars. Pope Innocent III’s Lateran Council and Saint Francis both believed holy men should wear humble clothes that
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Otto Jespersen’s view on logic of the English language No language is logical in every respect‚ and we must not expect usage to be guided always by strictly logical principles. It was a frequent error with the older- grammarians that whenever the actual grammar of a language did not seem conformable to the rules of abstract logic they blamed the language and wanted to correct it. Without falling into that error we may‚ nevertheless‚ compare different languages and judge them by the standard
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------------------------------------------------- Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du jeu de paume) was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The only person who did not sign was Joseph Martin-Dauch‚ a politician who would not execute decisions not sanctioned by the king. They made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court
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ended; and both had an impact on Great Britain. Before the French Revolution‚ France had a very rigid social structure. The 1st‚ 2nd‚ and 3rd Estates made up the classes. The 1st Estate was the clergy‚ or church. It was divided into the upper clergy - bishops‚ archbishops‚ and the like‚ and the lower clergy - priests and monks who actually taught God’s word out in the country. This class made up 1% of France’s population. The 2nd Estate was the nobility‚ the people of title. They made up 2% of France’s
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Causes of the French Revolution The French Revolution was a long lasting‚ ten-year period beginning in 1789 and eventually ending in 1799. It marked one of the most important events in history‚ leading to many transformations throughout France. At the time‚ France was the most powerful state in Europe but it still took part in the Revolution. During this era‚ France had been socially unstable. Although dividing the classes into three estates seemed as if it were a great idea‚ these estates were
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However‚ the new clergy were often poorly educated‚ and therefore the popular respect for the church was reduced dramatically; the church were always seen as guidance to the local villagers – they were the only ones capable of reading important letters‚ for example‚ yet for the uneducated clergy this proved near impossible‚ and so the local peasants came to doubt those they looked to for a source of comfort
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treatise of the government) Thomas Paine (Common Sense) Thomas Jefferson American and French Revolution THE SECULARIZATION MOVEMENT Father Pedro Pelaez (1862) Exposes the discrimination of Filipino clergys Racial and National conflict with the Friars curates in one side and Filipino clergy on the other side 1565 Religious orders took control of the parishes in the
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of the clergy. The nobles were in the Second Estate and the peasants‚ bourgeoisie‚ and urban lower class made up the Third Estate. In 1789‚ there was a bad harvest that caused an increase to the price of bread and a bread shortage. Many of the poorer people in France ate bread because it was filling and cheap‚ but after the price increase‚ some could not afford
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Goals of the French Revolution During Napoleon’s Reign The French Revolution was a period where thousands of French people fought for the abolishment of monarchy‚ religion and the establishment of equality and freedom. There were thousands of lives lost for these purposes and the country was separated into parts where revolutionaries were on one side and monarchs on the other. Napoleon Bonaparte arrived to France in the years of the revolution. He wasn’t a well-known
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