0 a piece of spoken or written advice about how someone should behave: --
He launched into a homily on family relationships.
I listened to his homily on public money and what he is pre pared to do about public money on public platforms.
Camus was a prolific writer, publishing 250 works during his life (1584-1652), comprising treatises, discourses, homilies, manuals of instruction and devotional texts.
Cooper points out that vernacular prayers and official homilies were a form of propaganda aimed at a mass audience.
He has presented us with a series of profound and inspiring homilies about how we should live our life and, in particular, attempt to defeat evil.
The literal translation that follows is fresh, readable and engaging, presented in verse form so as to preserve the homilies' rhetorical character, and accompanied by thorough scriptural cross-referencing.
This particular matins used to take place over several hours, with ten complete psalms, nine readings and traditional homilies, so the interpolation of musical interludes would have provided welcome relief!
There is a problem over the date of the delivery of the famous homily.
The style is a combination of historical theology, reflection and homily rather than sustained academic argument, and will appeal to a wider readership.
