A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.

Preaching or exposition based on the scriptures, also called a sermon.

In the Roman Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church, a homily is usually given during Mass (or Divine Liturgy for Orthodox) at the end of the Liturgy of the Word.

talk explaining the passage from the Bible that is set for the day