It held the learning of the time, and the culture which large-minded seculars respected; and quite as much as the empire of Charlemagne, it held the prestige of Rome.
Around, and for the most part below, regulars and seculars were the laity of both sexes, of all ages, positions, and degrees of instruction or ignorance.
Hence the seculars do not always find the exact application they want.
The only thing that we seculars have to compare with it is the periodical Retreat.
It is true indeed that in this country in the penal days and after, a large amount of missionary work was done by the regulars under conditions not very dissimilar to those under which the seculars were working.
It was at this period that she commenced correspondence with several religious communities, and numerous pious seculars in France, in order to engage their interest for the Indians.
For there would be no lack of seculars to substitute for the present, and in time, persons worthy to maintain this praiseworthy foundation could be trained.
For, since it is a fact that virtue increases with reward, which is the honor, if the religious hold all the professorships, the seculars will have no incentive which encourages them to rise and to study solidly.
This is impossible to attain if all the seculars who enter them must be only students, and only scholars, and no one can be a master, or hold a professorship, and it is well known how unadvisable that is.
By so doing this will be fulfilled until such time that your Majesty shows us the grace of placing this in greater perfection and in such form that we seculars may have a place according to the merits of each one.
It must have taken some considerable time before the game became so common as to be played at houses of entertainment by seculars or laymen.
This relationship was not a friendly one, as the seculars were jealous of the intrusion of the mendicants into their parishes.
Canterbury Hall, which was founded by Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1362, was at first intended to be used both by seculars and regulars.
Large sums of money were frequently given by seculars who had not been advanced to the honour of knighthood, to be admitted amongst this highly-esteemed order of men.
It was also even difficult to find seculars who cared to take charge of such districts, which were truly little to be desired.
In the latter year the Recollects are substituted for the seculars in accordance with the plan of the bishop of Nueva Cáceres, that the district be given to a regular order.
At that time they resigned that district into the hands of the bishop of Camarines, who employed seculars instead of those regulars.
Jesuits were sent to Mindoro to work in the field of the seculars in 1640.
Neither was that enough, so that at times it was very difficult to find seculars to take charge of those districts.
Hence could one recognize the great good fortune of the island of Mindòro, for in the territory where three seculars at most, and generally only two, lived formerly, six evangelical laborers had enough to do.
But finally, moved, either by charity or by obedience, there was never a lack of zealous seculars who hastened with the bread of the instruction to those Indians.
Those seculars maintained what was conquered, but that district did not yield a sufficient recompense for the three ministers, and they were paid from the royal treasury and from other pious funds.
But obedience caused that there never was a lack of seculars there, who maintained themselves until the year 76, when the Recollects went there to take their places.
There were various seculars in charge of the administration there, until the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight.
The Russian priests are divided into two classes, the white and the black clergy, or seculars and monks.
But it was not long before matters of doctrine were involved, and regulars and seculars were soon denouncing each other as heretics and antichrist.
Together with the contest between seculars and regulars in the University there went also one between the two great Mendicant orders.
They used a Secular Habit, modest and grave, and the Ecclesiasticks a Clerical Habit, with a Shred of Cloth and a Scapulary, to distinguish them from other Seculars and Ecclesiasticks.
Such is the description of the costume worn by the seculars which is given by one of the Roman Catholic Sisters, not without some pity as she thought of her own religious habit.
That it is easier to practice great virtue in a monastery than in the world, and that more religious have been canonized than seculars since the time of the martyrs.
In and after the eleventh century they increased in numbers and importance; their ranks being recruited not only by seculars trained in the monastic schools, but by monks who for various reasons had been ejected from their order.
But seculars of position or influence appear to have been able to borrow monastic books.
The two classes of priests, those who are not monks and those who are monks, are distinguished in Catholic countries as seculars and regulars (clerigos and religios).
The wrongs committed in the countries where the religious and the seculars go without orders.
In both these instances, therefore, more than six seculars were ordained for every regular.
In this instance, consequently, the ordination of seculars to regulars was [p213] in the proportion of 8.
Likewise the secularsretired edified at my constancy.
To such (excepting seculars below the grade of sub-deacon) the rule of celibacy applied, as well as other ascetic precepts dependent on the vows they had taken or the regulations under which they lived.
In the center of the island is a much greater number; therefore, it is along the beach where the Jesuit fathers and the seculars administer, and where the Visayans or Pintados are settled.
I know some seculars in the islands, who although Indians, can serve as an example and confusion to the European priests.
The clergy of a cathedral were sometimes regulars and sometimes seculars; and as men looked on the monks as holier than the seculars, the seculars were turned out of several cathedral and other churches, and monks were put in their place.
The old battle of the regulars and seculars was fought again over the bodies of two small parliamentary boroughs.
This annalist, as a monk, looks on the complaints of the seculars of Wells as "cavillationes.
This appeal on behalf of the seculars was at once met by the monastic zeal of Sir John Pakington, who daringly answered, that if Evesham 'cannot boast of a cathedral, it can of one of the most beautiful abbeys in England.
In another place the holy doctor says: "As he who takes orders is raised above seculars in dignity, so should he be superior to them in sanctity.
Among seculars shipwrecks are more frequent and sudden, because the difficulties of navigation are greater; but with anchorites storms are less violent, the calm is almost undisturbed.
We cannot fix the date when the community of nuns which the saint had founded was thus removed, but the passage which follows in Dugdale makes it clear that the seculars were in possession in 1004, when Ethelred II.
The seculars were only one order of the clergy, sharing the title with monks and friars, and they were commonly held as inferior to the one in wealth and learning, and to the other in holiness and zeal.
When we compare the mediaeval seculars with the modern clergy, we find that the modern clergy form a much more homogeneous body.
One great point of difference between the regulars and the seculars was that the monks and friars affected asceticism, and the parish priests did not.
Another difference between the mediaeval secularsand the modern clergy is in the superior independence of the latter.
In the mediaeval seculars the bishop was often one who had been a monk or friar; the cathedral clergy in many dioceses were regulars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seculars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: assembly; brethren; class; flock; fold; parish; people; sheep; society
