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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. ÆlfricÆlfric
, 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. His aim was to educate the laity as well as the clergy.
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homily

a sermon or discourse on a moral or religious topic

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Lawrence Abello was one of the spiritual guides and confessors, homilist and consultant.

A Time To Reflect

In contrast, the talmudic homilists enumerated five transgressions on account of which Saul died.

Saul and the "witch of En-Dor"

The homilist summons prophets both Jewish--Isaiah, David, Moses, John the Baptist--and pagan--Nebuchadnezzar, Virgil, the Erythraean Sibyl--and directs each to offer up a prophecy.

Sermons, exegesis, and performance: the Laon Ordo Prophetarum and the meaning of Advent

Father O'Connor's first appointment (1957-1960) was at Corpus Christi, Middlesbrough, where his fellow curate was Canon Michael Davern who was the homilist at his Requiem Mass.

Obituary: Father Michael O'Connor

In a eucharist rich in symbolism--from the transporting of the gospel in a flower-bedecked mini-canoe by Melanesians to the choice of homilist, music, and processional robes--Anglican bishops, their spouses and ecumenical participants gathered July 20 at the historic Canterbury Cathedral for the opening service of the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

'Transformation' theme of opening service

Despite the fact that the homilist goes on to state that "Matthew also aims the polemic at the constant temptation to this kind of heartless piety in his congregation (and ours)," the damage is already done.

Matthew and anti-Judaism

The mass usually has political overtones, and the homilist often takes swipes at separation of church and state--albeit sometimes in carefully couched language--and speaks out against legal abortion, stem-cell research, same-sex marriage or other issues of interest to the church's leadership.

Bishop seeks 'alliance' of religion, democracy during D.C. 'Red Mass'

It is the task of the homilist to mediate this presence so that as the homilist speaks, the community may apprehend the presence of Christ in the Holy Spirit.

Evaluation as pedagogy: models of theological and pastoral formation

The results are intriguing to modern scholars, who try to explain why what seems so obvious to readers now--a lack of inner coherence--seems to have been missed by the Anglo-Saxon homilist. The explanation varies with the particular homily.

Hit seg[eth] on halgum bocum: the logic of composite old English homilies

Going through this original source background one can easily notice that the Old English homilist always made a conscious effort to give his audience and readers the meaning in a clear and digestible vernacular idiom.

Determination and interpretation of semantic lexical underspecification in Old English homilies

Indeed Cahill the hip homilist is at bottom rather old-fashioned.

Christology Lite

But the artist as homilist turned such sermons back on themselves.

The Worm Against the Word: The Hermeneutical Challenge in Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine

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