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In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church's laws. The term comes from the Latin word ordinarius.
In Eastern Christianity, a corresponding officer is called a hierarch, which comes from the Greek word ἱεράρχης (hierarchēs) meaning " president of sacred rites, high-priest" and that from "ἱερεύς" (hiereus), "priest" + "ἀρχή" (archē), amongst others "first place or power, rule". In common usage in the Episcopal Church, an ordinary is a diocesan bishop.
The term is also employed within civic governance, notably in the US; the Ordinary role involves the discharge of certain, often legal or legally related, tasks falling to city or county authorities, such as licensing marriages and adjudicating claims against an authority.
In canon law, the power to govern the church is divided into the power to make laws (legislative), enforce the laws (executive), and to judge based on the law (judicial). A person exercises power to govern either because the person holds an office to which the law grants governing power or because someone with governing power has delegated it to the person. Ordinary power is the former, while the latter is delegated power. The office with ordinary power could possess the governing power itself (proper ordinary power) or instead it could have the ordinary power of agency, the inherent power to exercise someone else's power (vicarious ordinary power).
All the shit you put me through you'd think i was a
superman
But im not made of steel
i may be strong but im not strong enough to be let down
some wounds will never heal
You wear me out..
you wear me out..
(chorus)
Im ordinary
just skin and bone
Im ordinary
Im not invinsible
Not invinsible
Times are rough we don't have much but i can work
things out
you find it hard to see
what i give is all i have and when thats not good
enough
you hold it over me
You hold me down..
you hold me down..
(chorus)
Im ordinary
just skin and bone
Im ordinary
Im not invinsible
Not invinsible
You should have known
you brought this on and im out
what did u work for me
i gave you everything
oh im dying, im lying on the ground
all this shit you put me through you'd think i was a
superman
but im not made of steel
Im not invinsible
Im ordinary
Not invinsible
just skin and bone
Im not invinsible
im ordinary
Im not invinsible
just skin and bone
not invinsible
you should have known
You should have known
you brought this on and im out
what did u work for me
i gave you everything