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Feast

Feast meaning

A holiday, festival, especially a religious one | A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. | Something delightful

Example sentences (20)

When a feast on the moveable cycle occurs, the feast on the fixed cycle that was set for that calendar day is transferred, with the propers of the feast often being chanted at Compline on the nearest convenient day.

And then the actual feast began at long tables set up in a village square as if Cretan villagers were celebrating a wedding or a feast day.

As St. Patrick’s Day sometimes falls during Holy Week, and the church avoids holding feast days during certain solemnities such as Lent, there have been times when the feast day has moved to a different day.

The Roman feast celebrating their then god of the sun was converted to a Christian feast, Christmas, by the Roman Emperor, Constantine, as part of his reforms of the Roman Empire when he converted to Christianity.

This year Feast also launches the Adelaide Queer Film Festival, and from 22-24 November, the Feast Hub will take over The Piccadilly in North Adelaide for a variety of more than 20 massive events, from comedy and spoken word to live music.

To the cheering throngs, he said: “It is no coincidence that this inauguration occurs during the feast of Hanukkah, the Feast of Light, because Hanukkah celebrates the essence of liberty.

The Feast of All Saints (November 1) originated in the East in the 4th century as the Feast of Martyrs.

The feast of All Souls differs from the Nov. 1 feast of All Saints precisely because it offers prayers for the eternal peace and heavenly rest of all those who died in a state of grace, but not totally purified.

Wednesdays are Aloha Nights, Friday features the Crab Feast Buffet and Saturday the Lobster Feast.

At this feast all things were self-served, both food and ale, and all implements needful to the feast.

During the feast, she asks them to attend a further feast the next evening.

Feast A feast ( Vietnamese cỗ main, tiệc) is a significant event for families or a villages, usually up to 12 people for each table.

Feast days When the feast of Saint Thomas was inserted in the Roman calendar in the 9th century, it was assigned to 21 December.

Food is usually supplied, and sometimes this is a formal meal known as a feast or ale-feast.

His feast day is celebrated annually in Nola during "La Festa dei Gigli" (the Feast of the Lilies), in which Gigli and several large statues in honor of the saint, placed on towers, are carried upon the shoulders of the faithful around the city.

If a feast day falls on a Sunday it is always combined with the hymns for Sunday (unless it is a Great Feast ).

In May it is common to see dancing dragons at the Feast of the Drunken Dragon and twinkling-clean Buddhas at the Feast of the Bathing of Lord Buddha.

In these monasteries the monks abstain from meat, fowl, dairy products, fish, wine and oil (if a feast day occurs on a Monday, fish, wine and oil may be allowed, depending upon the particular feast).

It comes in mid-fall where people enjoy a three-day feast called "Antrosht". citation For the feast, ingredients will be brought by the children for a traditional hash recipe.

On the eve of his feast day, Albanians will light a candle and abstain from meat, preparing a feast of roasted lamb and pork, to be served to guests after midnight.