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homily
  1. A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.
  2. A moralizing lecture.
  3. A platitude.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In his homily at Malcom's funeral, Nebraska Bishop James Krotz told of visiting a nursing home in Nebraska City with Malcom.”
      “He gave me a long homily on how I was throwing a promising law career away.”
      “Ex-parish priest Cannon Francis Lynn read the gospel while Skreen native Fr. Brian Conlon delivered a beautiful homily.”
homiletics
  1. The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Although he taught Old and New Testament interpretation and homiletics, Sampey's great love was Hebrew and the Old Testament.”
      “From beginning to end, this book is a surprising and powerful combination of homiletics and humor.”
      “His ideas and their realization in church social service, mission, pastoral care, liturgy, education, and homiletics come from one vision.”
homilist
  1. One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.
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    1. “The guest homilist was Fr. Dermot Burns, Parish Priest of Straide, Co. Mayo.”
      “Colum Cille is the only saint whom the homilist will allow to approach his hero.”
      “In Hermas there is special affinity to the language and thought of the epistle of James, and in the homilist to those of Paul.”
homilete
homilists
homiletes
  1. plural of homilete
homilies
  1. plural of homily
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    1. “We studied the texts of similar homilies by Popes John Paul I and II and by English Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.”
      “Thanks to my Dominican priests at Blessed Sacrament for giving such homilies on a frequent basis.”
      “Nevertheless, we still encounter failed religious and political homilies that fail our need for counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.”
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