Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who composes homilies; one who exhorts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.
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- noun One who prepares
homilies ; one whopreaches to acongregation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The homilist will be the Rev. Edward Correia, pastor of St. Michael's in Fall River, with whom Deacon Deston served as a seminarian.
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The homilist was Father Jerry Wooten, assistant pastor of the church that hosted the Mass, Holy Trinity in Gainesville, Va.
Solemn Mass in Virginia: A Hopeful Sign of the New Liturgical Movement 2009
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It was interesting to watch, at the Saturday night vigil, my exemplary priest muddle through these changes with his usual open heart, and it was interesting to see the highly sophisticated reader, homilist and teacher struggle through the stiff and unwieldy and language of "corrected" sections of the mass.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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It was interesting to watch, at the Saturday night vigil, my exemplary priest muddle through these changes with his usual open heart, and it was interesting to see the highly sophisticated reader, homilist and teacher struggle through the stiff and unwieldy and language of "corrected" sections of the mass.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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It was interesting to watch, at the Saturday night vigil, my exemplary priest muddle through these changes with his usual open heart, and it was interesting to see the highly sophisticated reader, homilist and teacher struggle through the stiff and unwieldy and language of "corrected" sections of the mass.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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It was interesting to watch, at the Saturday night vigil, my exemplary priest muddle through these changes with his usual open heart, and it was interesting to see the highly sophisticated reader, homilist and teacher struggle through the stiff and unwieldy and language of "corrected" sections of the mass.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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Pope Joseph Ratzinger is not only a theologian, even before this he is a liturgist and a homilist.
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The homilist at the Opening ceremony on Friday 13 September 1926 was able to say: One hundred years ago, our faith was subject to all sorts of disabilities, it was despised and hated, it had to keep itself secret in order to live.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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On the "Christ our Lord was created by the Father" example, I can also imagine a homilist distinguishing between the Eternal Son and His created human nature in some way that may or may not be heretical, but will certainly be too confusing for a homily.
Error, Heresy, & You 2009
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Any homilist who fails to address this is shirking his duty.
The Burning Hell 2007
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