At a Catholic mass there are three readings from scripture....or the Bible.....THEN the priest gives a homily, which seeks to show us how those readings apply to our daily lives. So do you call the reading of scripture from the Bible aloud in church a sermon? We differentiate between the two. Readings and homily.
“So do you call the reading of scripture from the Bible aloud in church a sermon? We differentiate between the two.”
Our Pastor reads a scripture, we read along and then he explains how that particular passage applies to us today. We are probably talking about the same thing, we just have different names for it.