The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last Chapter demands further consideration.
Very solemnly did the moral homily to the Asian Christians begin in chapter iv.
We have extracted from the apostle's homily upon marriage the sentences referring to Christ and His Church, in order to gather up their collective import.
It is not the mercantile and callous calculation of chances for 'future felicity' (what homily supplied you with so choice a term?
Denis immediately changed his tone, and composed his face into a grave admonitory aspect, nearly equal to a homily on prudence and good conduct.
Dancing he approved of; he did not believe in prefacing his prayer or homily with a sanctimonious whine; and he actually was willing to admit that a few Catholics might get to heaven.
They are placed last of all in a homily attributed to Origen, but this does not necessarily show that father’s opinion.
The earliest example of its application to a catalogue of the Old or New Testament books occurs in the Latin translation of Origen’s homily on Joshua, where the original seems to have been “canon.
This homily smacks of some Hellenistic-Jewish rationalist, whom he copied.
The Bible says he shall be branded if he refuse the proffered liberty in the seventh year, and Philo in his interpretation has drawn a fine homily about the regard set on liberty.
Well, I did not expect, when you handed me out of my carriage to-day, that I was going to listen to a homily on prudence.
One of my constituents send me a homily this morning, the burthen of which was, I never thought of death.
At the dinner-table Mr. Dimmerly indulged in a long homily on the importance of keeping up old customs, and ended with a sly, significant glance at Lottie, which brought the color into her face.
But do not fail to close your homily with the assurance that the work and self-denial are of earth, while the illumined mount is the type of an eternal heaven.
They coveted the more voluminous authors to erase some immortal page of the lost decades of Livy, or the annals of Tacitus, to inscribe on it some dull homily or saintly legend.
I wants to have everything ready,’ she says, ‘just to make a homily when my husband comes home.
Too little, to our minds, was made of the sermon; it was a short homily in the midst of the service, very good in its way.
Father Lescher was the preacher for the morning, and prefaced his homily by several announcements, one of which had reference to looking after their pauper children who were taken to the Kensington Workhouse.
The didactic homily was one fresh convention introduced.
Homily on the Acts, translated in the Oxford Library of the Fathers.
It does not authorize the use in this place of the exhortations which are directed to be used 'after the sermon or homily ended.
Well, now my homilyis over, shall we copy the other list?
It was full this day at the high mass, and I preached them a homily upon the Saints, great part of which I took from a sermon I once heard the holy Dunstan preach.
The little homily which I took the liberty of delivering to him that evening, coupled with the very light sentence imposed, quite won his heart, it appears.
Miss Damer, upon whom, I fear, my little homily had been entirely thrown away.
Grandma Banks, whose conversational flights were not as a rule encouraged by her relatives, availed herself of her present emancipation to embark upon a brief homily to Dicky.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
