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.
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