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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lay Brothers
		lay brothers led to serious disturbances, and finally to the ruin of the order; but the wiser regulations of the Cistercians provided against this danger and have formed the model for the later orders.
		Lay brothers are now to be found in most of the religious orders.
		lay brothers attached to convents of women and of lay sisters attached to monasteries.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09093a.htm (976 words)

	Laity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At General Convention up to four lay persons from each diocese are elected to represent the diocese in the House of Deputies, one of the two governmental houses in the Episcopal Church.
		Lay Readers, Pastoral Leaders, Lay Preachers, Lay Eucharistic Ministers, and Catechists in the Episcopal Church are licensed by rector of the church.
		by the congregation as a Lay Preacher; and/or
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laity (856 words)

	Lay brother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the most common usage, lay brothers are those members of Catholic religious orders occupied primarily with manual labor and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary.
		Lay brothers are often pious and hard working persons, usually drawn from the working classes of the community, who, while unable to attain to the degree of learning requisite for Holy Orders, are still drawn to the religious life and are able to contribute to their house or order.
		Lay sisters are to be found in most of the orders of women, and their origin, like that of the lay brothers, is to be found in the necessity at once of providing the choir nuns with more time for the Office and study, and of enabling the unlearned to embrace the religious life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lay_brother (972 words)

	Ransoming Captives -- chapter 4
		Brothers were also advised not to permit their heads or feet to be washed by women; the ban against eating in their presence was seemingly absolute.
		Commanders whose mistreatment of a brother in their care caused him to abandon the Order would themselves be expelled, while anyone who brought a false accusation against another would himself be liable to the punishment appropriate to the alleged crime.
		The office of the lay brothers is described, however, and this consisted of a series of paternosters, ranging from five to thirty, that substituted for the hours.
	libro.uca.edu /rc/rc4.htm (7975 words)

	Lay Brothers - Catholic Encyclopedia - Catholic Online
		They are mostly pious and laborious persons, usually drawn from the working classes of the community, who, while unable to attain to the degree of learning requisite for Holy orders, are yet drawn to the religious life and able to contribute by their toil to the prosperity of the house or order of their vocation.
		Lay sisters are to be found in most of the orders of women, and their origin, like that of the lay brothers, is to be found in the necessity at once of providing the choir nuns with more time for the Office and study, and of enabling the unlearned to embrace the religious life.
		In the early medieval period we even hear of lay brothers attached to convents of women and of lay sisters attached to monasteries.
	www.catholic.org /encyclopedia/view.php?id=6933 (964 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Brixen
		Wilton), with 97 Fathers, 8 clerics, 3 lay brothers, and 4 novices; 2 Cistercian foundations (at Stams and Mehreran), with 84 Fathers 9 clerics, 25 lay brothers, and 16 novices; 3 Benedictine foundations (at Fiecht,
		Marienberg, and Bregenz), with 48 fathers, 5 clerics, 25 lay brothers, and 5 novices; 1 Benedictine priory (at
		Brixen (with a branch at Mill Hill), with 6 priests and 11 clerics; 1 house of the Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Heart of Jesus, with 5 Fathers, 13 clerics 9 lay brothers and 17 novices; 1 foundation of the School Brothers, with 11 clerics.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02793d.htm (1712 words)

	Role of law religious in the Church March 1, 1995
		Then there are lay institutes which, recognized as such by the authority of the Church, have their own proper role by virtue of their nature, character and aim.
		Brothers to every man, in their witness to Christ's love for all, especially the lowliest, the neediest; brothers for a greater brotherhood in the Church.
		Then there is a need to encourage lay institutes to persevere on the path of their vocation, adapting to a changing society, but constantly retaining and deepening the spirit of total selfgiving to Christ and to the Church as expressed in their individual charism.
	miraclerosarymission.org /ga950301.htm (1121 words)

	Religious Life: Hope remains for the unheralded brothers of God
		Religious brothers have been given the short end of the stick almost since the first monks (a term derived from Syriac-speaking monks and, loosely translated, meaning “the single ones”) began to separate themselves from society, either singly (the eremitic form) or in community (the cenobitic form).
		The brother became known as a lay brother and was generally consigned to be a hewer of wood and drawer of water.
		A caste system developed, one that saw worse aspects years later when brothers prayed and ate apart from clerics and, in some cases, were required to kneel when a cleric of their congregation entered the room.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/022202/022202m.htm (1867 words)

	OBLATE COMMUNICATIONS
		Seven brothers would, in fact, suffice to take care of the material needs of a house, but in the missionary perspective which was the perspective adopted by the Founder more and more after 1841, the number of brothers in a house could be greater than that of the fathers if missionary work demanded it.
		The brothers are members of the Congregation on equal footing with the fathers, and the family spirit which the Founder desired in the Congregation was also to be the fundamental norm for the relationship between fathers and brothers.
		For the brothers, there was the life of a son of the family on the one hand and of numerous instances of a lack of equality.
	www.omiworld.org /DizionarioVoce.asp?L=1&D=174 (10981 words)

	Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The small cloister lay to the south-east of the larger cloister, and still farther to the east we have the remains of the infirmary with the table hall, the refectory of those who were able to leave their chambers.
		To the south of the church lay the cloister-court (H), of immense size, placed much farther to the west than is usually the case.
		At the Jacobins at Paris, a cloister lay to the north of the long narrow church of two parallel aisles, while the refectory--a room of immense length, quite detached from the cloister--stretched across the area before the west front of the church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbey (6440 words)

	HCGL Manuscripts: GLMS-94, Lay Brothers Fisheries, Inc.
		Jacob Lay and Mary Bolzmeyer were born in Germany and migrated to Ohio before their son John was born.
		Lay Brothers, Inc. grew rapidly in terms of new boats and employees.
		As late as 1942, Charles Lay was a partner in the Lake Manitoba Fisheries, Ltd. of Winnipeg.
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/hcgl/glms0094.html (1053 words)

	Marist Lay Partnership
		Lay people have acted for many years as partners in the Marist mission in Australia.
		As teachers and parents, in their professional lives, in their friendship and support of the brothers, lay people have contributed significantly to the development and life of the Marist endeavour.
		One of the primary consequences of such involvement is that lay people have come to see their role in the life of the Province in a new light.
	www.maristmelb.org.au /layPartnerships (473 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		The main function of the lay brother was to carry out the practical tasks like cooking, maintenance, and craft work together with the work on o utlying farms which were needed to keep the Abbey running.
		The lay brothers were confined to their part of the Abbey by `the Lane', a passageway outside the Domus on the west side of the Cloisters, and separated from it by a wall.
		The lay brother in charge of each farm unit was known as the `Master of the Grange', and under him were o ther lay brothers whose number varied according to the size of the farm.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/historichouses/south_east/bealieu/bubroth.html (646 words)

	Brothers of St. Gabriel
		Brother John was Montfort’s confidant, "always ready to do anything he was asked." In 1715, Montfort wrote to Marie Louise and Catherine Brunet: "The Bishop of La Rochelle to whom I have spoken about you and our plans thinks you should come here to begin the work we want so much.
		However, lay Brothers are admitted to take care of temporal affairs provided they are detached, robust, and obedient, ready to do all they are told to do.
		I brought six of the Brothers with me to form a core group at Saint-Laurent."23 If the Rule of 1830 foresaw that the superior of the Missionaries would always be their superior, the Rule of 1838 stipulated that thenceforth, after the death of Fr.
	www.ewtn.com /library/Montfort/Handbook/Brothrs.htm (4087 words)

	Chapter 1 - In its First Century
		During its first hundred years, the Order was a lay religious institute in the sense that lay brothers were governing at various levels and the charismatic goal of the institute, the redemption of captives, was carried out by lay brothers.
		Brother Teobaldo of Narbonne was burned alive and since he did not die right away, he was stoned to death at the end of October 1253.
		The humble lay Brother Peter Nolasco was always considered as a faithful imitator of Christ the Redeemer and thought to be a saint.
	www.orderofmercy.org /Survey/chapt01.htm (10068 words)

	The Brothers of the Rose Cross
		All of the Brothers have a material body, and they live in a house (in Germany) which appears to be the home of well-to-do but not ostentatious people.
		Lay brothers who have been connected with the Temple for twenty to forty years in this life have indicated that the Elder Brothers look just about the same today as they did thirty or forty years ago.
		Therefore the Brothers of the Rose Cross gave to Max Heindel the Philosophy as published in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception and sanctioned the launching of The Rosicrucian Fellowship to promulgate the Teaching.
	www.rosicrucian.com /zineen/magen103.htm (1388 words)

	Religious Brothers
		A lay brother is a friar who is consecrated to God through the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
		The lay brother, however, is especially blessed with being able to serve the other friars in community by "keeping the home fires burning".
		It is the emphasis on a life of service to the larger fraternity that often won the lay brother the reputation of being the "mother" of the community.
	www.franciscanfriars.com /vocations/rel_brothers.htm (509 words)

	Brothers of the R.C.: Mountain Center
		The Brothers of the Rose Cross are Adepts, being among those Compassionate Ones, who, through many lives, have unfolded their inner faculties to a very high degree by loving, self-forgetting service to the race.
		Thus each Brother is a complete creative unit on both the spiritual and physical planes, able to use the bi-polar force (masculine and feminine) through the double spinal cord, illuminated and raised in potential energy by the spinal spirit fires of Neptune (Will) and Uranus (Love and Imagination).
		The other five Brothers never leave the etheric Temple, and although they do possess physical bodies, all their work is done from the inner worlds.
	home.earthlink.net /~xristos/GoldenDawn/brothers.htm (914 words)

	Pope John Paul II 22 February 1995 General Audience
		Commitment to the priestly ministry is not required by the consecration which is proper to the religious state, and therefore even without priestly ordination a religious may live his consecration to the full.
		Thus their witness to the Christian faith, their dedication and their sacrifice should be admired and praised, while it is to be hoped that the aid of benefactors-in the best Christian tradition—and subsidies provided by modern social legislation may increasingly enable them to care for the poor.
		Then there is a need to encourage lay institutes to persevere on the path of their vocation, adapting to a changing society, but constantly retaining and deepening the spirit of total self-giving to Christ and to the Church as expressed in their individual charism.
	www.ewtn.com /library/papaldoc/jp2f2295.htm (1195 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Carthusian Order
		Peter the Venerable adds certain details, lays stress on the poorness of their garments, and mentions that they restricted their possessions both in land and cattle, and fixed their own number at thirteen monks, eighteen lay brothers, and a few servants.
		religious, the third is concerned with the lay brothers and the nuns.
		The lay brothers and donnés, collectively known as the Familia, are under the procurator, and have their own chapel, chapter-house, and refectory.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03388a.htm (4055 words)

	DLSU-Manila : Brothers : De La Salle Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But as people worked with the Brothers, they began to understand that the Brothers were not priests, but full-time religious educators who were inspired by the example of their founder, St. John Baptist de La Salle and have consecrated their lives for the service of youth.
		If the Brothers then had been involved with priestly functions, the Brothers would not be able to totally dedicate their time to the young.
		Although the Brother does not officiate in the Sacraments, it is the life of the young people that the Brother seeks to transform.
	www.dlsu.edu.ph /brothers (713 words)

	BSP The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St Francis - Constitutions
		The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis was first organized when a number of Secular Franciscans requested to live and gather according to the prescriptions of their First Rule while still within the Secular Franciscan Order.
		The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis is a non-profit Private Association of the Faithful whose members seek to live the Gospel more fully in their lay lives by following the prescriptions and tenets of the First Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, the Rule of 1221.
		The Association of the Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis of St. Francis is a bona fide non-profit Association.
	www.bspenance.org /Constitutions.shtml (4597 words)

	REFLECTIONS ON THE CHALLENGE OF "CHARISMATIC ASSOCIATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the lay brothers were not monks and very often they did not live within the monastery.
		However, that does not prevent the charism from being shared with the lay brothers, the family brothers and the knights of the military Orders, as we have seen.
		The "secular character" of the lay faithful is different and complementary to the secular dimension of monks and nuns (Christifideles laici 15).
	www.ocso.org /asoc-car.htm (4193 words)

	Order of Brothers -
		It appears from the writings and practice of St. Francis that his intention was to form a gospel brotherhood uniting all its members, whether cleric or lay, in a single family without any distinction in principle, not even as regards access to the office of superior.
		Making the ecclesial power of governance in the Order – the ministerium fratrum or service of the brothers (ER 17) – open to all the brothers was proposed to “the Lord Pope” and lived out as a necessary consequence of the gospel identity of lesser brothers as Francis intended it.
		The recognition of the Order as an institute that is “neither clerical nor lay”– with all the consequences – derives from the fact of its being a brotherhood – as St. Francis intended – and from the evangelical motives underpinning the profession of life as brothers.
	www.ofmcap.org /en/order.htm (3500 words)

	BSP Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St Francis, Catholic Association
		BSP Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St Francis, Catholic Association
		Every bishop who has been introduced to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance has supported the movement as a definitive return to the Gospel life.
		As an Association The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis is open to all Catholics including Third Order members, oblates, and members of other Catholic lay movements and Associations.
	www.bspenance.org (662 words)

	Christian Brothers Lay Volunteer Program (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first Brothers came to the United States, to All Saints Grammar School, in 1906 and opened their first school in the United States in Harlem in 1909.
		The Congregation of Christian Brothers believes that our greatest national resources are the minds and hearts of our children.
		The Congregation of Christian Brothers has successfully provided this education for almost two hundred years in 250 schools and colleges throughout the world.
	www.cbvp.org /rice.html (579 words)

	Abbey of St. Peter & St. Paul (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mass was held for the brothers daily, and mandatory meeting in Chapter, which allowed for the business of the Abbey to be carried out as well as any problems that come up among the deportment of the brothers.
		Discipline was meted out then, self-accusations were the preferred way of discovering faults in a brother, although one brother has the right to bring up omission of, or commission against, the rule against another brother.
		Anion, welsh shepherder one of the lay servants
	home.comcast.net /~chinmom/abbey.html (463 words)

	The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St Francis - BSP - Newsletter - September 2005 issue
		He was and is always a brother in Christ and St. Francis and we will make every effort to remain close to him in his final, golden years.
		Through baptism, the lay faithful are made one body with Christ and are established among the people of God.
		The lay faithful share in the prophetic mission of Christ through "their ability and responsibility to accept the Gospel in faith and proclaim it in word and deed without hesitating to courageously identify and denounce evil" (Christifideles Laici, n.14).
	www.bspenance.org /Archive/Newsletter200509.html (4570 words)

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