Catholic Preaching Tradition in Prekmurje

Abstract

In this article, I supplement the collection of Prekmurje Catholic sermons discovered and recorded so far, both printed and handwritten. I note that in Slovenia, little research attention is paid to this topic, while an extensive corpus of sermons kept in archives, parishes and libraries and published in an older Prekmurje newspapers, calls for a more thorough analysis of their language, style, culture of worship expression, the relationship between elements of dialect and super-dialect and the influence of the Slovene standard language. At the same time, it testifies to the extensive and continuous preaching activities of Prekmurje Catholic priests, who defied Hungarian denationalization and strived for cultural development and national awareness of Hungarian Slovenes by worship in the Slovene (Prekmurje) language, especially in the early 20th century.

Keywords

• prekmurje sermons
• catholic sermons
• preaching
• prekmurje
• prekmurje clergy
• homiletics