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"homily" Definitions
  1. a speech or piece of writing giving advice on the correct way to behave, etc.

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Delivering his midnight homily, the rector made a reflective appeal.
Don LaCuesta to discuss what they wanted in the homily.
Lear next offered a short homily on the subject of Friendship.
Kris Stubna stepped up to the altar to deliver his homily.
Cardinal Voiello does damage control after the pope's homily incites chaos.
"Big Ang was indeed fully human," Monsignor Cassato said in his homily.
He began with a homily on the importance of stricter gun control.
It happened during the homily, which focused on the power of words.
I'm fascinated by the practice of this secular homily, this secular grace.
The homily that Father LaCuesta delivered at the church in Temperance, Mich.
Both the homily and eulogy reinforced the need for a free press.
Francis also appeared to take a swipe at China in his homily.
Russell J. Levenson Jr., the rector of St. Martin's, said in his homily.
There, they said, Father Don LaCuesta delivered a homily condemning Maison for the death.
Paul D. Scalia, delivered an eloquent homily that emphasized the late justice's devout Catholicism.
In his homily at the Mass, Parolin prayed for peace on the Korean peninsula.
"It's hard," said Kevin Regan, a deacon at the church who delivered the homily.
Dr. Russell Levenson Jr., of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, delivered a homily.
Edward Staniek during his homily at The Church of the Felician Sisters in Krakow.
On Friday in his homily, the bishop said he had been crying for a week.
"Dear young people, you have it in you to shout," he said in his homily.
Dr. Russell J. Levenson Jr., rector of St. Martin's, said on Wednesday in his homily.
During a homily at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in southeastern Michigan on Dec.
In one scene, during Pius' first homily as pope, Sorrentino renders him only as a silhouette.
William Senft, a Roman Catholic deacon and an uncle of the bride, provided the homily. Mrs.
"The weakest and most vulnerable must be helped," the pope said in his homily on Monday.
"The truth is humble, the truth is silent," he said in a homily at the Vatican.
The pontiff will deliver a homily in the monastery of an order of cloistered Carmelite nuns.
He departed from his prepared homily to appeal to nations not to turn their backs on refugees.
"Since he is family, the details of his 'homily' matched perfectly with our personalities and values," Mrs.
"The temptation to silence young people has always existed," Francis said in the homily of a Mass.
Pope Francis lauded the Nobel Peace Prize winner as "a generous dispenser of divine mercy" in his homily.
In his homily, Francis referred to the deep discrimination suffered by the country's many ethnic and religious groups.
The pope, in his homily on Sunday, seemed to have no illusions of how hard his task is.
The Pope was always expected to put indigenous rights at the center of his homily in San Cristóbal.
" In a Lenten homily from his first year as Pope, Francis preached that Jesus' "most powerful message" is "mercy.
"His body temperature measured 106 degrees," Father Jordan cried out during a homily that recognized each of the fallen.
Arthur: Hey, you and I are Catholics, and we know that no souls are saved by a long homily.
In his homily, Archbishop Blair described himself in humble terms, as a messenger and a man capable of failure.
" Last Monday, the pope told listeners in his homily to face those seeking "scandal" and "division" with "silence and prayer.
They are not, however, allowed to deliver the homily at Mass, and some are unsung and invisible in their parishes.
" The homily would go on to say, "Nothing — not even suicide — can separate us from the unconditional love of God.
Mr. Hullibarger said at one point he got up and futilely asked Father LaCuesta to stop partway through the homily.
LaCuesta to give a positive homily that spoke to the importance of kindness, and the couple wasn't aware that Rev.
"Christmas reminds us that God continues to love us all, even the worst of us," Francis said in his homily.
In his homily, he spoke of the suffering and injustice found in cities and the "temptation" of leaving or hiding.
She points to a homily in September, describing Satan as the Great Accuser, who "has been unchained and is attacking bishops".
In his homily, Father Scalia said the family was grateful to hear all the words of admiration for the justice's work.
It is a computer-tweaked facsimile, into whose mouth has been put a not-entirely serious homily about Belgium's carbon emissions.
In his homily, Francis said, "Our document of citizenship" comes from God, making respect of migrants an integral part of Christianity.
In a homily during a Friday evening Mass inside the cathedral, Francis urged his flock to look beyond their own communities.
As the priest began his homily, I drew my 9-year-old son closer and asked him to pay close attention.
During his homily Francis instructed the parents to go ahead and feed the babies if they started crying due to hunger.
Typically, he'd deliver a brief, motivational homily, before hanging back and letting the candidates, some he hardly knew, do their thing.
During the Mass, the Gospel and the homily were in English, followed by an on-the-spot translation into North Slavey.
In 20083 he delivered the homily at the funeral Mass for Dave DeBusschere, the Hall of Fame forward for the Knicks.
It's like giving a homily at Mass and, rather than talking to all of us, singling out one person in the pew.
At the ceremony, which took place in Mr. Kai's apartment, Mr. Soko delivered a short homily about faith and remembering the dead.
In one of his book's early scenes, he relates a professional homily from a man he identifies as prominent Russian TV presenter.
But in the last three years, that homily has been proved right, in the country where it was not supposed to happen.
In his homily he paid homage to motherhood, saying a world that looked to the future while forgetting "a mother's gaze" was shortsighted.
The pope used part of his homily at St. Peter's Basilica to address violence around the world amid a rise in terrorist attacks.
Brian Jordan said, as he started his homily in the chapel of St. Francis College in Downtown Brooklyn, where he is the chaplain.
Don LaCuesta to discuss what they wanted in the homily, to be delivered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Temperance.
The Archdiocese of Detroit has suspended a priest from presiding over funerals after his homily about suicide gained national attention and criticism.  Rev.
Frank Gliozzi, another parishioner, told CNN he was "very much encouraged" by Stubna's homily, in which he directly addressed the grand jury report.
V. Gene Robinson, who became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in 2003 but has since retired, gave the homily.
"Little Room" is a pithy and circular homily on the anxieties of the creative life; it might almost be a piece of needlepoint.
Paul Jeanes III, an Episcopal priest officiated with Leslie A. Sanders, a lay minister and an uncle of the bride, giving the homily.
But in his homily on Tuesday, he emphasized the importance of living in peace and giving a good example in a foreign land.
"Mercy seeks to transform each situation from within," he said during his homily held at El Punto, a large field near Benito Juarez Stadium.
Paul Scalia will also deliver the homily, the sermon that explores the themes of the Bible readings at Mass, Basilica spokesman Jackie Hayes said.
Another man told me that he decided to go back to church, and it was Easter, and the homily was on same-sex marriage.
During the homily, the prominent priest and theologian also took issue with some of the Pope's more liberal ideas on immigration, divorce and Islam.
But he offered an effective and sometimes moving homily, seeking to bring people together -- even if he could not make sense of the carnage.
Like its peers, "Russian Doll" resolves on the necessity of human connection, a familiar homily, but it's too inventive and irascible to feel pat.
"We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis which in recent years has meant the migration of thousands of people," he said during his homily at Mass.
Francis used the words martyr or martyrdom 10 times during his homily in the chapel of the guest house where he lives in the Vatican.
Turning around to propose that a new abolition movement would reverse these deeper problems may work as a homily, but it is unpersuasive as policy.
In 1997, it was the subject of a homily by Pope John Paul II, the only time a pop song had prompted such a sermon.
Cribbing from the perverted homily of mid-century horror, The Witch tells the story of an ostracized Puritanical family beset by witchcraft, possession, and doubt.
In his homily, he encouraged people to "knock down" the walls of social codes — known in Italy as "omerta" — that discourage people from denouncing mobsters.
"Some say this is the moment of suffering and mourning and we shouldn't think about the causes and responsibilities," the cardinal said in his homily.
In his homily, the pope spoke about the return of the prodigal son, and how the warm reception he was given upset his older brother.
Dr. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, an associate professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, extolled the men to "lean into love" in a rousing homily.
In his homily, Francis mentioned the exploitation of women and children and the plight of refugees and migrants for the second time in one day.
His unusual apology came after he used his first homily of the new year to denounce violence against women, which he compared to profaning God.
Many a homily has been preached to the effect that people who claim to be "spiritual" without belonging to any denomination are just sloppy free-riders.
"Pause a little, leave behind the unrest and commotion that fill the soul with bitter feelings which never get us anywhere," he said in his homily.
And don't use it as an opportunity to deliver a little homily about kids today or parents today and how much better things used to be.
In his Sunday homily and at a news conference last week, Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador called on lawmakers to reject any change.
" He writes: "Like its peers, 'Russian Doll' resolves on the necessity of human connection, a familiar homily, but it's too inventive and irascible to feel pat.
The words of King's last sermon, "The Drum Major Instinct," fills the BRIC House Ballroom as Wiley and Williams alternate reading successive passages from the homily.
In his homily, the chief justice judiciously ignored the elephant in his own courtroom—the empty chair Senate Republicans successfully blockaded after Antonin Scalia's death last February.
A cardinal in the eastern city of Görlitz duly chimed in with a festal homily that denounced the "capitalist thinking" behind the planned closure of a factory.
Yet, he preaches a humbling homily on the stuff ("It was a 10-year winter/Falling in line/A land without freedom/Is no land of mine").
And I have said it before, and I will say it again here, I listen to the homily of every priest more intently and reflect upon it.
Celebrant: Father Paul Scalia, Antonin Scalia's son, will be the celebrant -- the person who will lead the mass -- for his father's funeral mass and deliver the homily.
In his homily to the rain-soaked crowd, which included Hungarian President Janos Ader, the pope suggested past troubles should not be a barrier to co-existence.
"Fail to see the tragic, turn it into magic," instructs the Marilyn Manson lyric that opens the movie, a homily to guide Colleen toward her initial vows.
But on Tuesday, Francis suggested in an homily during his morning Mass that the accusations against him and others in the Viganò letters were the devil's work.
"He is called upon to be someone that has to turn his back on so many of the temptations of this world," he said in the homily.
Francis's remarks came during his homily at New Year's Day mass, saying that he lost "patience" on Tuesday with a woman who pulled him (The Associated Press).
On a rainy and chilly morning, a crowd of about 40,000 faithful, many folding their arms to keep warm, listened to the pope's homily in the stadium.
" Francis said during a homily at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica that people "often make do" with having "health, a little money and a bit of entertainment.
They are missing the chromosome on which God placed love, Carl once said, seeming to pluck the idiotic phrase from the ticker tape homily of his mind.
During his homily, Francis also addressed another theme close to his heart, immigration, saying women who moved abroad to provide for their children should be honored, not scorned.
Hagatña, Guam (CNN)Father Paul Gofigan began his homily with a question for the parishioners in Guam's biggest place of worship -- the Catholic Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica.
"It's probably a trend they should embrace," said Edward Zhong, 25, a doctor visiting from Australia with his brother Mark, 21, who spent much of the homily taking pictures.
Before apologizing Wednesday for the smack, he delivered a homily on the topic of women, denouncing "every form of violence" they face, including rape, forced prostitution and verbal abuse.
" Flavin, in his homily, said: "We pray that everyone is able to feel the peaceful presence of God and His son Jesus in the midst of chaos and pain.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia, delivered a homily at the Mass that formally ended the conference, with words that were in many ways more pungent than the pope's.
As NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reported, Francis wore the bloodstained rope belt that Romero had been wearing during his assassination, and highlighted in his homily the "radical" nature of Jesus Christ.
Francis made the remarks during his morning homily Tuesday, and, as is the norm, the Vatican didn&apost release the full text but only selected excerpts, the Associated Press reported.
Pope Francis, in homily at mass for migrants and refugees, said: " before the challenge of contemporary movements of migration, the only reasonable response is one of solidarity and mercy" pic.twitter.
"We understand that an unbearable situation was made even more difficult, and we are sorry," the archdiocese said in a statement to CNN, which published a copy of the homily.
Francis didn&apost refer to any country by name in his homily, but he said the only "reasonable response" to the global migration phenomenon today is to show solidarity and mercy.
These posts aren't a traditional homily, but, they made me think and try to connect the message to me, and, ultimately to you, my readers, to whom I am forever grateful.
" Francis addressed similar issues in a homily during an Easter vigil Saturday, comparing Mary and Mary Magdalene to "children and young people who bear the grievous burden of injustice and brutality.
Bush's final moments recounted Russell Levenson Jr., the reverend at Bush's church in Houston, offered the homily for the former president on Wednesday and recounted his final hours before he died.
Michael Bruce Curry, an African-American from Chicago and the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, gave a spirited homily alongside Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, who was the officiant.
Pope Francis said in his homily Monday that those seeking "scandal" and "division" should be answered only with "silence and prayer" as the Catholic Church grapples with it latest sexual abuse scandals.
Under a light drizzle, he ended the day as he had begun it, urging Colombians in his homily to put their differences behind them and beware "the darkness of thirst for vengeance".
On the surface, it could appear an argument either for or against same-sex marriage, but over the course of the rest of his Sunday homily Archbishop Fisher cleared up any questions.
In his homily, Francis said the infant Jesus, born in poverty in a stable, should make everyone, particularly those who have become "greedy and voracious," reflect on the real meaning of life.
Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died early Sunday along with two friends in a boating accident, was remembered as a larger-than-life figure during a homily at his private funeral.
Mr. McKay's four children and their spouses stood by him while wrangling his grandchildren, none of over age 3, into listening to Father O'Donovan's homily as sea gulls squawked in the background.
Some of the heads bent over prayer books had skullcaps, others were bare: Parishioners from at least three churches had joined in the service, and the homily was recited by the Rev.
In the homily, Francis spoke out against violence toward women, likening it to profaning God and saying that they should be more involved in decision making at high levels (The Associated Press).
"I can decide that a carob and an orange should no longer be called by their name," Archbishop Scicluna said in a homily a few days after Parliament started debating the legislation.
His character, Dr. Jason Seaver, a psychiatrist, was a classic 1980s formulation of the reassuring father who solved everyone's problems with a warm homily by the end of each 30-minute episode.
There, in what is billed as the "Great Prayer Meeting for National Reconciliation", the pope will listen to testimonials from people whose lives were affected by the violence and then deliver a homily.
"We have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace," Francis said in his homily, delivered off-the-cuff in the windy courtyard of the center.
"We will not go unpunished," Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia said in the homily of a final Mass ending the four-day conference convened by Pope Francis to confront a worldwide scandal.
In his Sunday homily at the local cathedral, Michael Neary, Archbishop of Tuam, said he was "horrified and saddened" and spoke of "great suffering and pain for the little ones and their mothers".
Days before the funeral for their son, who at the age of 18 took his own life, Jeff and Linda Hullibarger met with their parish priest to discuss the homily to be given.
"The way we've received support from the Bronx and beyond is a sign that the victims are not alone, that we are united," Father Fernandes said during the homily at a Spanish Mass.
In 2010, when he gave a homily in Sicily that anti-Mafia forces hoped would be a ringing denunciation of the Cosa Nostra, she was among those who found his words too timid.
His pre-election homily against the "dictatorship of relativism" helped get him the job, and his papacy was considered by many as a last-ditch effort to save Europe and its Christian roots.
But she waited until the following Sunday, when, as she listened from the glassed-in room for families at the back of her church, the same priest devoted his entire homily to it.
Brendan Ryan, a former ACE teacher and fourth-year seminarian, stepped before the offertory table in a chapel to deliver a sort of homily that stretched from Galatians to his former school in Alabama.
The Mass began: I tried to focus on the readings, I tried to listen to the priest's homily, but I wanted to cry out—to say in a few words what happened here. ♦
Mary "stands near those who suffer," the pope said in his homily, "including those who have been put on trial, condemned by all, deported" — those, he said, who are on the fringes of society.
At the hospital and in his homily, Francis spoke of all four of the main themes of the trip to this country as well as Madagascar and Mauritius - peace, poverty, corruption and environmental protection.
It started with the doom-hued inauguration homily to "American carnage" in United States cities co-written by Mr. Bannon, followed a few days later by his "shut up" message to the news media.
She previously had an affair with Father Valente (Ignazio Oliva), one of the pope's assistants, and is obviously interested in the new pope, though she couches that in the idea that she simply loved his homily.
The book's tone alternates, sometimes within a single paragraph, between the citation-heavy pop psychology of a TED talk and the aw-shucks wisdom of a homily at a prosperous stone church in a D.C. suburb.
His homily recalled the work carried out by the Casa del Sollievo della Sofferenza, the hospital Pio founded in 1947, the prayer groups that he sponsored beginning in 1942 and his reputation as a tireless confessor.
Listening back, it is hard to pinpoint how, exactly, a question about the Champions League's revenue distribution leads to a brief but powerful homily about the dangers of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, but it does.
Strip away the emotions of the moment—the raw memory of Kennedy's assassination, the controversies surrounding the ultra-right John Birch Society—and the formulation becomes a homily on the moral logic of political decision-making.
He is the chairman of the bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and made clear after his homily at a national vigil in January that fighting abortion was a bigger issue for him than fighting deportations.
Yet the artist's work is not a homily on sustainability, but rather an investigation of the formal properties of dollar-store merchandise, the "behavior and character" of whirring cooling fans, electric highlighter fluid, and pliable painter's plastic.
In 1998, at Holy Trinity, Monsignor Leonard delivered the homily during the funeral Mass for Paul O'Dwyer, the dogged, progressive immigrant who had been president of the City Council and was the brother of a former mayor.
He spoke in a homily at a Mass on a sprawling field on the outskirts of the capital Antananarivo for hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom had spent the night outdoors in unseasonably cool weather.
In his homily, read with tapestries of images of the seven new saints hanging from St. Peter's Basilica behind him, Francis called Pope Paul "a prophet of an extroverted Church" who opened it up to the world.
Lenny's father figure comes into play in the form of mentor Cardinal Spencer (James Cromwell), who gives Lenny quite the dressing down after his ridiculous first homily as Pope Pius and his unwillingness to be seen in public.
In his homily at an Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, Francis recounted the Biblical account of Jesus Christ's mother Mary and Mary Magdalene, filled with grief, as they went to visit his tomb following the crucifixion.
Her exemplary Pageant Material (2015) sketched a formal paradox, as a collection of "advice" songs that advised against the assumptions that underlie the very concept of the advice song, an examination and embrace of the American colloquial homily.
In his homily at the National Cathedral, Levenson recalled that family members, friends, former colleagues and secret service agents had gathered with Bush at his home in Houston on Friday when the former president was in declining health.
Following a day of student-led worldwide protests against gun violence, Pope Francis encouraged young people during his Palm Sunday homily to continue raising their voices, saying they must "shout" even if "older people and leaders...keep quiet":
In Malmo, Sweden, on Tuesday, Francis celebrated an outdoor Mass for the country's small Catholic community, and in his homily offered a new take on the Beatitudes, the blessings offered by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
"It is most certainly not easy for you to live far from home, missing the affection of your loved ones, and perhaps also feeling uncertainty about the future," Francis said in his homily, which he delivered in Italian.
Francis made the comment in the homily of Mass for priests, nuns, and members of Catholic lay organizations in Panama City's newly renovated cathedral of Santa Maria Antigua, the first in mainland America, which was completed in 1716.
Beginning and ending each episode with a worldly-wise homily — "When you're in your 20s, you feel like you're invincible" — he comes across less as a character than a pitchman in an ad campaign to sell insurance to millennials.
In 2000, he began giving a one-minute radio homily, a segment he titled "The High Calling of Our Daily Life," which highlighted the role that faith has played in the successful careers and personal lives of ordinary people.
In Miercurea Ciuc on Saturday, he celebrated an open-air Mass at an important Catholic pilgrimage site, where large crowds, many from Romania's Hungarian-speaking minority, gathered in the mud and rain to hear the pope deliver a homily.
Part homily and part interview (it's structured as a Q. and A. between the pope and the Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli), the book is notable chiefly for two traits that have marked Francis' papacy from the start: humility and clarity.
I'm sure most of us had forgotten, if we ever knew, that Mr. Copperfield delivered a homily on his immigrant grandmother and the importance of American freedom, perhaps reinforcing the messages about personal freedom that Philip continues to imbibe from EST.
During his January 21 homily ahead of the second of the CLC's three protests, he told his congregation that the church had three tasks: to announce the good news of the gospel, to denounce evil, and to reject corrupt powers.
He called the homily "Five Minutes to Live," and he likened the crew members to Jews, who are called during the High Holy Days to engage in the process of "heshbon ha-nefesh," Hebrew for taking stock of one's soul.
In any case, let's be clear: America in 2018 is not a place where we can disagree without being disagreeable, where there are good people and good ideas on both sides, or whatever other bipartisan homily you want to recite.
Francis, marking his seventh Easter season as pope, wove his homily around the Bible account of the women who went to Jesus' tomb only to find it empty and the large stone that had sealed it had been cast away.
In his homily, Francis urged his flock to reflect on how children today aren't always allowed to lie peacefully in a cot, loved by their parents as Jesus was, but rather "suffer the squalid mangers that devour dignity," according to the Associated Press.
"When 'family' becomes the decisive criterion for what we consider right and good, we end up justifying and even 'consecrating' practices that lead to the culture of privilege and exclusion: favoritism, patronage and - as a consequence - corruption," the pontiff said in his homily.
"In communities where we are still weighed down with patriarchal and chauvinistic customs, it is good to note that the Gospel begins by highlighting women who were influential and made history," the pope said in a homily that was repeatedly interrupted by applause.
In a politically difficult pitch to career employees who may sharply disagree with his vision of a more restrained EPA, Pruitt offered something of a homily to the civil service, saluting those with decades of service and proclaiming them symbols of the agency's value.
Francis skipped his homily during Easter Mass but delivered his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (To the city and the world) speech highlighting conflicts in the Mideast, Africa and the Americas and demanding that political leaders put aside their differences and work instead for peace.
" Father Scalia, the episcopal vicar for clergy in the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Va., maintained a remarkable poise throughout his 15-minute homily, coming close to choking up just once and just for an instant when he mentioned the justice's "love for his family.
In his homily he urged people to overcome what he called "a torrent of misery" by "building an ever more just and fraternal world, a world in which every person and every creature can dwell in peace, in the harmony of God's original creation".
Related: Pope Francis Touches Down in Mexico Today, But John Paul II Still Gets All the Love As well as his pointed comments about the elite, the Pope's homily also urged ordinary Mexicans not to fall into the trap of pursuing money, fame, and power.
"I think, perhaps, we may have some difficulty in calling her St. Teresa: Her holiness is so near to us, so tender and so fruitful, that we continue to spontaneously call her Mother Teresa," the pope said in off-the-cuff remarks during his homily.
In his homily during a Mass from the steps of the first church, he used the word "omerta", which refers to the code of silence organized crime groups impose on their members and the fear they use as a tool to keep others from talking to police.
"If they start performing a concert (by crying), or if they are uncomfortable or too warm or don't feel at ease or are hungry ... breastfeed them, don't be afraid, feed them, because this too is the language of love," he said in a short improvised homily.
After the formal remarks by the former presidents and the other speakers, the service wrapped up with readings by Sidney McCain, another daughter of the senator, former Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and a homily by the Rev.
So it was good to get a reminder, from Pope Francis in his New Year's Eve homily, that the people who have the most influence on society are actually the normal folks, through their normal, everyday gestures being kind in public places, attentive to the elderly.
"We should be worried when our consciences are anaesthetized and we no longer see the brother or sister suffering at our side, or notice the grave problems in our world, which become a mere refrain familiar from the headlines on the evening news," he said in his homily.
Soon after the Havana encounter, the influential Bishop Tikhon Shevkhunov, who is personally close to Mr Putin, seemed to place himself at the head of an "anti-ecumenist" faction when he spoke in a homily of the "serious confusion" that many people had felt on observing the Havana encounter.
On his first day in the job, the new pontiff demands Cherry Coke Zero at breakfast, scolds an elderly nun for kissing his forehead, bans the use of his image on merchandise and refuses to be properly seen or photographed in public, even when he delivers his inaugural homily.
"If we Christians are right in believing that salvation belongs to Jesus Christ, that it does not come from us — and that our hand cannot stop what God allows for us, then yes, there is hope in eternity even for those who take their own lives," the homily reads.
In New Jersey, a priest at Sacred Heart Church in Lyndhurst dedicated his homily to the significance of the eucharist and a visiting priest from Liberia at St. Mary's Church in Nutley spoke mostly about the hardships the West African nation has faced, but neither mentioned the cases of abuse.
In a homily earlier on Monday, Francis said everyone should look after their soul by taking a moment of silence every day, "to keep our freedom from being corroded by the banality of consumerism, the blare of commercials, the stream of empty words and the overpowering waves of empty chatter and loud shouting".
Francis has not formally responded to these accusations, although in a recent homily he alluded to the "Great Accuser" — Satan — attempting to stir up distrust among bishops by trying "to uncover the sins, so they are visible in order to scandalize the people," seeming to suggest that Viganò's letter might have been diabolically motivated.
"If Colombia wants a stable and lasting peace, it must urgently take a step in this direction, which is that of the common good, of equity, of justice, of respect for human nature and its demands," he said in a strong voice in the homily of the Mass, accompanied by Caribbean and salsa music.
A Greek bishop who is known for his sharpness of tongue, Amvrosios of Kalavryta, gave an astonishing homily in which he compared the various disagreements between the church and the country's secular leftist government (which are mostly quite manageable) with the contest between the Hebrew prophet Elijah and the priests of the false god, Baal.
In the homily of a Mass, he told them not to lead "two-track lives" or to "remain enclosed, out of fear or convenience, within ourselves ..." Some media commentators have accused Polish Church leaders of enjoying a lifestyle protected from the difficulties some Poles are facing in the economic transition from communism to capitalism.
Two nights after Donald J. Trump won the presidential election, Archbishop José H. Gomez convened an interfaith prayer service at the Roman Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles and gave an emotional homily vowing not to abandon children and parents who are living in fear that Mr. Trump will follow through on his promise to deport millions of immigrants.
In his final homily, minutes before he was shot in the heart, Romero spoke of spreading "the benefits of human dignity, brotherhood and freedom across the earth ...." The 1980-1992 war in El Salvador between the U.S.-backed army and the Marxist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which later became the ruling party, left 75,19633 dead and 8,000 missing.
" Pastor Hagee, in his homily, showed that though he knew his "Old Testament" chapter and verse, he didn't seem to know that the mighty cadences of his modified King James aren't quite impressive—are, in fact, quite confusing—to those who speak the language of the original: "Let the word go forth from Jerusalem today that Israel lives—shout it from the housetops that Israel lives.
Thousands of former slum dwellers, many of them children, gave the pope an ecstatic welcome, leaving him seemingly overwhelmed by the experience, who only hours earlier defended the poor in the homily of a huge open-air Mass.. Francis taught Father Pedro Opeka theology at the Colegio Máximo de San Miguel in Buenos Aires in 1968 while Francis was completing his own studies for the priesthood.
The February meeting offers a chance for him to respond to criticism from victims of abuse that he has stumbled in his handling of the crisis and has not done enough to make bishops accountable.. In his homily, Francis spoke of "The weariness of hope (that) comes from seeing a Church wounded by her own sin" and of a Church "which so often failed to hear all those cries".
In a passage of agonizing beauty, she notes how far she felt she'd travelled from the religion that had infused her girlhood: Left behind by the homily and miles away from the other churchgoers, whose minds, at least from where I sat, appeared to be actively trailing the minister's words, hearing them and chuckling or murmuring, or merely nodding to themselves as the meaning sunk in, I realized I had no idea what the story was that I was part of.

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