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The liturgical year, also known as the church year or Christian year, as well as the kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years.

A layperson (also layman or laywoman) is a person who is not qualified in a given profession and/or does not have specific knowledge of a certain subject.

In religious organizations, the laity consists of all members who are not members of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious institutes, e.g. a nun or lay brother.

The role of Christianity in civilization has been intricately intertwined with the history and formation of Western society.

Throughout its long history, the Christian Church has been a major source of social services like schooling and medical care; inspiration for art, culture and philosophy; and influential player in politics and religion.

In various ways it has sought to affect Western attitudes to vice and virtue in diverse fields.

It has, over many centuries, promulgated the teachings of Jesus within the Western world as well as throughout other third-world nations.

Festivals like Easter and Christmas are marked as public holidays; the Gregorian Calendar has been adopted internationally as the civil calendar; and the calendar itself is measured from the date of Jesus's birth.

The Sacrament of Holy Orders in the Catholic Church includes three orders: bishop, priest, and deacon.

In the phrase "Holy Orders", the word "holy" simply means "set apart for some purpose." The word "order" designates an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ordination means legal incorporation into an order.

In context, therefore, a group with a hierarchical structure that is set apart for ministry in the Church.