Word of the Day - 5/14/2008

Sodality

Sodality is fellowship; comradeship.

Sodality was one of the the activities the early church committed itself to immediately after Pentecost. (Acts 2:47)

They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. (Acts 2:42, NASB)

In the jargon of the Roman Catholic Church, sodality is a lay society for religious and charitable purposes.

Note: This picture of early Christian worship was painted by William Hole.