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Rufinus admitted that he made more changes to the Homilies on Leviticus than Origen's homilies on the other books of the Pentateuch.He wrote in the translator's preface that the "duty of supplying what was wanted I took up because I thought that the practice of agitating questions and then leaving them unsolved, which he frequently adopts in his homiletic mode of speaking, might prove ...
Women constitute the great majority of members of the consecrated life within the church. Catholic women have played diverse roles, with religious institutes providing a formal space for their participation and convents providing spaces for their self-government, prayer and influence through many centuries. [181]
Jerome praised her humility and service, securing her legacy as a saint and pioneer of nursing in the Catholic Church. [45] [46] Faltonia Betitia Proba (Christian Poet) fl. 362 CE: Rome: A Roman aristocrat and early Christian poet, is known for her Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi, which restructured Virgilian verses to narrate biblical ...
Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, translated by Sister Thomas Aquinas Goggin, Homilies 48-88, Fathers of the Church vol 41, (Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 1959) [translation of Homiliae in Ioannem] Baptismal instructions, translated and annotated by Paul W Harkins, (Westminster, MD, Newman Press, 1963)
The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter. In religious studies, homiletics (Ancient Greek: ὁμιλητικός [1] homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng" [2]) is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. [1]
Contemporary Protestant clergy often use the term 'homily' to describe a short sermon, such as one created for a wedding or funeral. [1]In colloquial, non-religious, usage, homily often means a sermon concerning a practical matter, a moralizing lecture or admonition, or an inspirational saying or platitude, but sermon is the more appropriate word in these cases.
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The Paschal homily or sermon (also known in Greek as Hieratikon or as the Catechetical Homily) of St. John Chrysostom (died 407) is read aloud at Paschal matins, the service that begins Easter, in Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches. According to the tradition of the Church, no one sits during the reading of the Paschal homily.