Vocabulary Word
Word: homily
Definition: sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; serious warning; ADJ. homiletic
Definition: sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; serious warning; ADJ. homiletic
Sentences Containing 'homily'
No company, a walk, a family dinner of four, and an evening of looking over books and pictures; Miss Murdstone with a homily before her, and her eye upon us, keeping guard vigilantly.
An example is the Mass of Ash Wednesday, in which the blessing and imposition of ashes, after the homily, replaces the Penitential Act at the beginning.
She reported that 14 February was a day solemnly kept in Jerusalem with a procession to Constantine I's Basilica of the Resurrection, with a homily preached on (which makes the occasion perfectly clear), and a Divine Liturgy.
Maximus of Turin was at a "synod of Milan" in 389 at which Jovinianus was condemned, according to his ninth homily.
He led the Saturday evening vigil and presided over the Holy Mass on the Sunday, delivering a homily which focused on entrusting the future of the Church to the youth.
In his homily he said, "Yes, the springtime of ecumenism has flowered on the hill of Taizé."
