To satisfy the demands of wealthier parishioners for more comfort during the often lengthy sermons, pews with cushions began to proliferate.

Following a lengthy sermon on social morality, he intoned: "By the will of the deceased it is expected that I should mention her and say nothing but what was well of her.

He set about his mission with zeal, preaching thirteen lengthy sermons during his first eleven days there.

His public roles included celebrations called farbrengens (gatherings) on Shabbats, Jewish holy days, and special days on the Chabad calendar, when he would give lengthy sermons to crowds.

During his lengthy sermons his friend and disciple, Silvester of Valdiseve, sometimes sat near the pulpit with wine to refrech him.

He set about his mission with zeal, preaching 13 lengthy sermons during his first 11 days.

Following a lengthy sermon by Gerard, the heretics recanted their errors and were received back into the Church.

The wedding between the two young gipsies was a moving ceremony, although Christian's lengthy sermon had everyone fidgeting on the hard bench seats before it was ended.

Traditionally a lengthy and expansive sermon is given to the general community in the afternoon.

Bishop Theodore of Alania described the plight of his metropolis in a lengthy epistolary sermon written during the tenure of Patriarch Germanus II (1222-40).