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homily (hŏm`əlē), type of oral religious instruction delivered to a church congregation. In the patristic period through the Middle Ages the focus of the homily was on the explanation and application of texts read or sung during the celebration of the liturgy. Works of literature giving moral advice are also called homilies. Ælfric Ælfric , c.955–1020, English writer and Benedictine monk. He was the greatest English scholar during the revival of learning fostered by the Benedictine monasteries in the second half of the 10th cent.
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homily
a sermon or discourse on a moral or religious topic


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Instead, it was a celebration of a man's life who, in fact, was declared to be already in the presence of Christ in heaven by the homilist and therefore no longer in need of prayers, at once a falsification of the truth and a tremendous disservice to the deceased.
The problem is that most homilists and religious educators have forgotten or never learned, or don't believe the church's social teachings on work.
The homilist, Dr Seamus O'Connell of Maynooth said Mai and Bridie will miss their children.
 
 
 
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