[ noun ] a sermon on a moral or religious topic <noun.communication>
Homily \Hom"i*ly\, n.; pl. {Homilies}. [LL. homilia, Gr. ? communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. ? an assembly, fr. ? same; cf. ? together, and ? crowd, cf. ? to press: cf. F. hom['e]lie. See {Same}.] 1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. --Shak.
2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. --Byron.
{Book of Homilies}. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a ``godly and wholesome doctrine.''
In his Sunday homily, San Salvador's Roman Catholic archbishop, Arturo Rivera Damas, said that government policies and rebel attacks were causing great hardship to the nation's people.
Every businessman is a gambler.' He slides off into another homily, this time about the importance of risk-taking in business.
O'Connor was invited about two months ago by a group of Catholic bishops in Cuba and is scheduled to give the homily at several services during his visit.
"Let me express the hope that your labors here will produce the abundant fruit which the ecclesiastical community is expecting," the pope, clad in gold robes and miter, said in his homily.
"The cancer of liberalism is spreading in the Church" since the Second Vatican Council, Lefebvre said in his homily Wednesday.
After the homily, John Paul baptized and confirmed 27 people from 11 countries.
In his homily at an outdoor Mass on the shores of Lake Victoria, the pope also spoke out against abortion, saying the "dignity of every human person from the moment of conception until natural death" must be respected.
A text of the homily was issued in advance by the Vatican.
During half time, the captain delivers a brief homily.
In his homily, he urged his flock to treat victims of AIDS as "we would treat Christ himself." Malawi has one of the highest rates of AIDS in Africa.
Obando y Bravo, who has been a leading critic of the Sandinistas in their nine years of rule, delivered his homily Sunday.
Today is June 6, and here is your homily for the day.
He became the network's boy wonder when he produced a homily to Americana called "Ballad for Americans."
Police said 43 people were arrested inside the packed cathedral when they jumped from their seats near the start of O'Connor's homily and stretched out in the center aisle, some chaining themselves to pews.
"Remember that you are but dust, and into dust you shall return," the Rev. Thomas Bowers, pastor of St. Bartholomew's, said in his homily.
Mr Brennan, mollified, delivers a homily on the dangers of statistics. By chance, an identical conversation arose weeks earlier.
Everything Khomeini said in his daily homily was tape recorded and played over the phone to supporters in Iran who would rerecord the speech and circulate it clandestinely.
"We are gathered here in this concelebration to renew our priestly readiness to serve," John Paul said in a homily in Italian.
In his homily, John Paul described how the sacrament of the Eucharist, or turning of bread into Christ's body, represented Jesus' death and resurrection.
In his homily, Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, Roman Catholic archbishop of Manila, condemned "self-appointed messiahs" for launching the coup attempt.
It is his home-grown homily about the humblings of nature on man and beast, his tactful way of saying fly fishing is the Great Leveler _ it is merciless toward CEOs, yuppies, one-horse cowpokes, and grizzly bears alike.
The Rev. Jose Maria Tojeira, the Jesuit leader for Central America, delivered the homily.