In addition, vernacular adaptations of parts of the Ordinary of the Mass appeared as early as the 1260s, when a homily of Berthold of Regensburg describes a profession of faith which was sung after the Latin Credo: " I believe in the Father, I believe in the Son of my Lady Saint Mary, and in the Holy Spirit, Kyrie eleison.

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

In his Christmas homily that year, he asserted that there was no opposition between a democratic form of government and being a good Catholic: " Christian virtue makes men good democrats ....

Whereas First Clement was an epistle, 2 Clement appears to be a transcript of an oral homily or sermon, making it the oldest existing Christian sermon outside of the New Testament.

It was to be a homily in four chapters on repentance based on the Hafṭarot of the Day of Atonement and Shabbat Shuvah.

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI gave a homily about him in Saint Peter's square.

Abaddon is given particularly important roles in two sources, a homily entitled The Enthronment of Abbaton by Timothy of Alexandria, and the Apocalypse of Bartholomew.

In the homily by Timothy, Abbaton was first named Muriel, and had been given the task by God of collecting the earth which would be used in the creation of Adam.

The third Nocturn consists of a homily on the Gospel which is read at that day's Mass.

His writings include the homily given in Ephesus and several other sermons.

Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a mid-2nd century Paschal homily attributed to Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.

It comprises two main divisions: the first is the Liturgy of the Catechumens which consists of introductory litanies, antiphons and scripture readings, culminating in a reading from one of the Gospels and, often, a homily ; the second is the Liturgy of the Faithful in which the Eucharist is offered, consecrated, and received as Holy Communion.

A homily concerning the observance of Sunday is attributed by Zahn to Eusebius of Emesa.

Saint Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople ( 434-446 ), hoping to bring about the reconciliation of these Johannites, preached a homily praising his predecessor in the Church of Hagia Sophia.

Pope Gregory the Great's homily on Luke's gospel dated 14 September 591 first suggested that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute: " She whom Luke calls the sinful woman, whom John calls Mary, we believe to be the Mary from whom seven devils were ejected according to Mark.

50 ), for example, the homily ( see Sacrosanctum Concilium, art.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection.

In a homily preached at Chur and preserved in an 8th-or 9th-century manuscript, St. Timothy is represented as an apostle of Gaul, whence he came to Britain and baptized there a king named Lucius, who became a missionary, went to Gaul, and finally settled at Chur, where he preached the gospel with great success.

A second epistle, 2 Clement, was attributed to Clement although recent scholarship suggests it to be a homily by another author.

The Second Epistle of Clement is a homily, or sermon, likely written in Corinth or Rome, but not by Clement.

It is possible that the Church from which Clement sent his epistle had included a festal homily to share in one economical post, thus the homily became known as the Second Epistle of Clement.

At least on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, a homily, a sermon that draws upon some aspect of the readings or the liturgy of the day, is then given.

Followed by the Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, collect, the readings with an alleluia ( alleluia is not said during Lent ), homily ( or sermon ) and recitation of the Nicene Creed.

Then the priest may deliver a homily and everyone comes forward to venerate the epitaphios.

In addition to his numerous letters to various notables and foreign rulers ( including Simeon of Bulgaria ), Nicholas Mystikos wrote a homily on the sack of Thessalonica by the Arabs in 904.

50 ), for example, the homily ( see SC art.

Revelation describes what is happening throughout the Christian era, from Pentecost to the second coming.

Other sources suggest that Christian describes the person's " Christ-like " inability to sin, stemming, in such cases, from an incapacity to distinguish right from wrong.

Affirmation of this creed, which describes the Trinity, is generally taken as a fundamental test of orthodoxy for most Christian denominations.

Hayden White describes " the myth of Progress " as the " secular, Enlightenment counterpart " of " Christian myth ".

Andrew Wheatcroft describes how some social customs such as different conceptions of dirt and cleanliness made it difficult for the religious communities to live close to each other, either under Muslim or under Christian rule.

Diarmaid MacCulloch, in his A History of Christianity, describes the epistle as " a Christian foundation document in the justification of slavery ".

Fine Gael describes itself as a " party of the progressive centre " conforming strongly to the ideals of Christian democracy and compassionate centrism, and is often seen as being moderate on social issues but conservative as regards economics.

The Christian author Tertullian, commenting on ludi meridiani in Roman Carthage during the peak era of the games, describes a more humiliating method of removal.

In an article for the Christian Science Monitor, Sharon J. Huntington describes these other historical inks:

Rich with allusions to Christian teaching, the poem describes a mother drowning her illegitimate infant and its being netted by fishermen.

Metalcore band, Norma Jean, derived the title of their song " No Passenger: No Parasite " from the section in the book in which Lewis describes a fully Christian society as having " No passengers or parasites ".

Mormonism describes itself as falling within world Christianity, but as a distinct restored dispensation, through which it characterises itself as the only true form of the Christian religion to be in existence since the time of the Great Apostasy.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

Jean-José Puig describes how Massoud often led prayers before a meal or at times asked his fellow Muslims to lead the prayer but also did not hesitate to ask a Christian friend Jean-José Puig or the Jewish Princeton University Professor Michael Barry: " Jean-José, we believe in the same God.

* The City of God ( written 413 – 426 AD ) by Augustine of Hippo, describes an ideal city, the " eternal " Jerusalem, the archetype of all Christian utopias.

* Christianopolis ( 1619 ) by Johann Valentin Andreæ, describes a Christian utopia inhabited by a community of scholar-artisans and run as a democracy.

Peter Grier, staff writer of the Christian Science Monitor describes this occurrence as ," Call it the benign side of peer pressure.

Other sources describes his education in Damascus as having been conducted in accordance with the principles of Hellenic education, termed " secular " by one source and " Classical Christian " by another.

The WCC describes itself as " a worldwide fellowship of 349 global, regional and sub-regional, national and local churches seeking unity, a common witness and Christian service.

The Travels of Marco Polo, where Polo records his journey along the Silk Road, describes Samarkand as a " a very large and splendid city ..." Here also is related the story of a Christian church in Samarkand, which miraculously remained standing after a portion of its central supporting column was removed.

On the other hand, the general setting appears to be what Clifford Huffman describes as " late-Imperial Christian Rome ," possibly during the reign of Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ).

The short novel, " If This Goes On —", describes a rebellion against an American theocracy and thus served as the vehicle for Heinlein to criticise the authoritarian potential of Protestant Christian fundamentalism.

Nonetheless, Rasmus Christian Rask concluded that the texts must indeed be the remnants of a much larger literature, as Pliny the Elder had suggested in his Naturalis Historiae, where he describes one Hermippus of Smyrna having " interpreted two million verses of Zoroaster " in the 3rd century BC.

The book describes her life as a series of three acts, each thirty years long, and declares that her third " act " will be her most significant, due in part to her commitment to the Christian religion, and that it will determine the things for which she will be remembered.