CONFRATERNITY. In ecclesiastical law an association of the laity whose primary purpose is the promotion of public worship. Other aims may be joined with the primary one. Over the years, as recognized by the Code of Canon Law (1918), confraternities were founded as sodalities. An archconfraternity would be a sodality with the right to aggregate other associations of the same kind. By this aggregation the affiliated society could participate in all the spiritual favors conferred by the Holy See on the archconfraternity. (Etym. Latin con-, with + fraternitas, brotherhood.)
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I belong or have belonged to a number of confraternities. Enrollment in each of the Five Scapulars is actually enrolment in the corresponding Confraternity. I was a member of Confraternity of Christian Doctrine when I taught religion in a 'CCD' program.
I am also a member of the Confraternity of Mary, Queen of All Hearts, affiliated with the Montfortian Fathers for those who have made the Consecration of St Louis Marie.
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