Preaching

[Sarah]

The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art ofsermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious,earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimessurmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preachingplace.-- Preaching friars. See Dominican.

[Renato]

present participle of preach

[Tracie Lynn]

The delivery of a sermon or religious address to an assembled group of people, typically in church.