This Sunday, we are reading the 12th and final Homily in the first book of homilies, which is entitled: A Sermon Against Contention and Brawling These sermons have been edited to shorten them and to update the language, with the intent of maintaining the content, or at least the core meaning.  The original texts of the homilies can be found in the manuscripts after the edited texts that were preached.  For background on these homilies, see the links below. At the time these homilies were written, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, there was great religious turmoil in England.  The Reformation had brought Protestantism to the Church of England,…