homily

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The Homily will be preached by parish priest Father Roddy McAuley, who has described Mr Kennedy as "a much loved and respected parishioner".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2015

Eccleston will star as Homily, the father of teenage Borrower Arrietty.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2011

I set it on the kitchen table—a reminder of wishes come true—lit the kerosene lamp and finished writing my Honyocker’s Homily.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

We should scarcely have had the First Homily of the First Book written, if such had been her mind.

From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

But the principal proof arises from a cancelled leaf in the Homily, "Of Common Prayer and Sacraments," as it stands in the Oxford edition of 1822, p. 329-331.

From Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George