They make us listen to a homily in the gratified interval between two courses.
The pope made this possibility even more apparent in his homily at Mount Nevo.
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That phrase, "rebuilding the church" was mentioned by him, according to reports of the pope's first homily.
In his homily, given to about 50 young offenders, he said that everyone should help one another.
In a homily, the Pope earlier urged priests to do less "soul-searching" and engage more with parishioners.
The pope, who plans to deliver his homily in Italian, isn't expected to stay strictly within a script.
But in his homily, he acknowledged many Christian Brothers had "betrayed a trust" and that "unthinkable harm" had been caused.
In his homily, Francis said Christian joy "isn't born from possessing a lot of things but from having met" Jesus.
His homily belied the discord that has come to the fore in the wake of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation.
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The 85-year-old pontiff delivered a prayer for peace to the crowd in St Peter's Square after his homily at Mass.
"The will of God doesn't alienate us, it purifies us perhaps in ways that are painful, " Benedict said during his 2005 inauguration homily.
Pope Francis' homily at the Mass began by focusing on Joseph and his role as protector - of Mary, Jesus and the Church.
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And in a homily penned during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, he derided activists campaigning against the ritual slaughter of millions of sheep.
Cardinal Sodano, a powerful Vatican cardinal who ran the Roman Curia under John Paul II, framed his homily by citing writings by the Apostle Paul.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, used his homily to call upon cardinals to unite behind whoever steps into the shoes of St.
Safhe returned the favor by interrupting Pope John Paul II's homily at the Church of the Annunciation during his March 2000 visit with a call to prayer.
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In his inaugural homily an address that popes have traditionally used to set the tone for their papacy Pope Francis cast himself as a custodian and servant of the Church.
Keeping with his spontaneous style, the first pope from Latin America broke away several times from the text of his prepared homily to encourage the faithful to lead simple lives.
In his homily, he also marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain by paying tribute to those who sacrificed their lives resisting the "evil ideology" of the Nazi regime.
During Friday's liturgy, the papal preacher, Capuchin friar Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, delivered a homily citing Franz Kafka's An Imperial Message to emphasise the of difficulty of getting the important message of Christ to the worldly.
Rabbi Yosef compared Mr Sarid (also a coalition member) to the biblical badman, Haman, which Mr Rubinstein saw as possible incitement to murder despite the rabbi's subsequent protestations that his homily had been purely metaphorical.
Cardinal O'Brien will say in his Easter Sunday homily at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh that many people wear crosses "not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work".
There have been times in the past when US intelligence estimates were proved wrong, but Secretary Gates had barely climbed down from the podium when his homily about the Iranian threat proved to be, well, hogwash.
Many in Cuba and around the world listened closely to the pope's homily at the enormous open-air Mass Wednesday to see whether he would expand on -- or be more forceful in -- his apparent criticisms.
When I was in Rome a few weeks ago, Pope Francis spoke movingly in his homily about our commitments to each other, not just as people of faith, but, he went on to say, but as human beings.
Is there a candidate in the past 30 years who hasn't had his outside airbrushed, his long-winded message sharpened, his stump speech spiced up, his policy positions honed, a bit of poetry added to his homily on Medicare reform?
In a homily a year after Mr. Kirchner assumed office in 2003, the new pope assailed "exhibitionism and strident announcements" that he said characterized Argentine public life, in what was perceived as a thinly veiled critique of Mr. Kirchner.
Earlier Sunday, he made an impromptu appearance before the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passers-by and prompting cheers, before delivering a six minute homily brief by church standards at the Vatican's tiny parish church.
In his homily, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, called for unity within the church, a not-so-veiled appeal to the cardinal electors to put their differences aside for the good of the church and the next pope.
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