Homily

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The term homily [ ˌhomiˈliː ] (Greek ὁμιλεῖν homilein “to be familiar with one another, to talk to one another in a familiar way”) means something like “conversation, speech, teaching”.

The terms homily and sermon are often used synonymously. The homily and sermon, however, have different intentions and audiences. While a sermon praises the great deeds of God (Latin praedicare "to praise") and wants to inspire people for the faith and win over non-believers for the faith, the homily has a mystagogical and instructive character for believers.

The homiletics as a science concerned with the study of the homily or sermon. A collection of sermons that explain the Bible is called a homiliar (ium) or panegyricon .

In the Catholic Church, homily denotes the sermon in the service in which the biblical readings are interpreted. On Sundays and feast days, the homily is a mandatory part of the celebration of mass , on other days it is recommended. The homily in Holy Mass is part of the church's magisterium ( Munus docendi ) and before all other tasks of the bishop . This is also evident in the liturgy when he wears the miter with the two vittae in the homily . These indicate the authority to interpret the Old and New Testaments true to tradition.

Because of the close connection between the homily in Holy Mass and the office of teaching and sanctification associated with the Sacrament of Orders, among other things, the homily is reserved for the bishop, priest or deacon. Outside of the celebration of mass, a lay person commissioned to do this can, for example, preach a sermon in a word service, but never the homily.

In the Protestant Church, a homily is understood to be a sermon that retells the biblical text. In his sermon doctrine, Rudolf Bohren describes the homily as the preferred form of the scriptural sermon, in contrast to the theme sermon.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kunzler: To be liturge. Draft of an ars celebrandi . 2nd edition, Paderborn: Bonifatius, 2009, p. 437.
  2. ↑ Michael Kunzler: To be liturge. Draft of an ars celebrandi. 2nd edition, Paderborn: Bonifatius, 2009, p. 437.
  3. ↑ Can. 767 CIC .
  4. ↑ Congregation for the Bishops: Directory for the Pastoral Service of Bishops (Announcements of the Apostolic See, No. 173. Published by the Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference. Bonn 2006), February 22, 2004, paragraph 122a; last accessed on May 27, 2016 from Archivlink ( Memento from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Lumen Gentium 21.
  6. ^ Congregation for the Bishops: Directory for the Pastoral Service of Bishops (Announcements of the Apostolic See, No. 173. Edited by the Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference. Bonn 2006), February 22, 2004, paragraph 124; last accessed on April 27, 2016 from Archivlink ( Memento from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Announcements of the Apostolic See, Instructions on Certain Questions about the Cooperation of Lay People in the Ministry of Priests, Article 3 §2; August 15, 1997; last accessed on May 27, 2016 from http://www.dbk.de/fileadmin/redaktion/veroeffnahmungen/verlautigungen/VE_129.pdf
  8. ↑ Announcements of the Apostolic See No. 173, Directory for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops, February 22, 2004, 112.
  9. ↑ Rudolf Bohren: Sermon Doctrine. 5th edition, Munich 1986, p. 109.