Verbum 9 Tip 9r: Sermons

MJ. Smith · June 2021

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Reading lists: Catholic Bible Interpretation

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Sermons – by reference

From Verbum Help: [quote]

Sermons Section

This section lists sermons that have been labeled with the guide’s key reference or topic.

Note: sermons within published sermon collections are most likely to have been labeled, and not every potential sermon has (yet) been labeled.

User-added Sermon labels are also searched by this section. For more about the Sermon label scheme, see Searchable Labels.^{^[1]}

Prerequisite reading: none

Resources included:

The criterion for inclusion is the presence of a {Label Sermon} label. This includes, in my library, most type:sermon, many “collected works of” and patristic resources, . . .

A search for {Label Sermon} against all resources should give you a complete list of sermon-labeled resources in your library. In my case this is 634 resources of which 352 are type:sermon. This amounts to about 63% percent of the sermon resources being tagged.

Section heading bar

Think standard section heading bar – no special features.

Interactions on data

Visual cue	Data element	Action	Response
Arrowhead (triangle)	Homilist with letter count	Click	Expand/contract the section below the heading
Blue text	More	Click	Expand to see additional results
Blue text	Homily title	Mouse-over	Opens standard homily preview popup.(1)
		Click	Opens the resource containing the homily to the beginning of the homily from title (1)
		Right click	Opens a Context Menu
		Drag and drop	Opens the resource containing the homily in the pane of the users’ choice to the beginning of the homily (1)
Blue text	Bible reference	Mouse-over	Preview popup of the passage in your highest priority Bible containing the passage (2)
		Click	Opens the highest priority Bible to the designated passage in a new panel. (2)
		Right click	Opens a limited Context Menu.
		Drag-and-drop	Opens the highest priority Bible to the designated passage in a new panel in a pane of your choice. (2)

(1) Letter preview and view

(2) Bible reference preview and view

Search

A search to duplicate the results of this guide section is easily built in the form of {Label Sermon WHERE References ~ <Mk 1:9–11>}. What one is lacking is the ability to sort them into homilist sequence although resource, count, and rank options are available.

Supplemental materials

While there is no specific support for analyzing other’s homilies, the following tools are worth exploring for the creation of your own homilies:

Guide: Sermon Starter – Bible reference form
Guide: Sermon Starter – Preaching theme form
Workflow: Expository Sermon Preparation
Workflow: Ralph West’s Weaving the Textual Web (adapted from “Weaving the Textual Web” by Ralph West from the book Power in the Pulpit: How America’s Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons, edited by Cleophus J. LaRue (Westminster John Knox, 2002))
Workflow: Topical Sermon Preparation
Tool: Homily Builder
Tool: Homily Manager

Note that the guides and workflows are all single passage in their orientation and, therefore, not meeting the needs of the Catholic (or nearly any liturgical) homilist.

^{^[1]} Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).