the feast of feasts
61Boar's Head Feast — The Boar s Head Feast is probably the oldest continuing festival of the Christmas season. HistoryThis pageant is rooted in ancient times when the boar was sovereign of the forest. A ferocious beast and menace to humans it was hunted as a public… …
62feast — /fist / (say feest) noun 1. a periodical celebration, or day or time of celebration, of religious or other character, in commemoration of some event or person, or having some other special significance: feasts of the Church; the medieval feast of …
63Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia) — The calendar of saints and commemorations in the Church of the Province of Melanesia (the Anglican Church in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu) is a continually developing list. Both old and new, universal and local saints and worthies are… …
64feast — {{11}}feast (n.) c.1200, religious anniversary characterized by rejoicing (rather than fasting), from O.Fr. feste (12c., Mod.Fr. fête) religious festival; noise, racket, from V.L. *festa (fem. sing.; Cf. It. festa, Sp. fiesta), from L. festa… …
65Office of the Dead — The Office of the Dead is a prayer cycle of the Liturgy of the Hours in the Roman Catholic Church, said for the repose of the soul of a decedent. It is the proper reading on All Souls Day (normally November 2) for all souls in Purgatory, and can… …
66Feasts — or Festivals Days set apart for the celebration of some great event connected with our Blessed Lord or His Saints, also called Holy Days. The rubric in the Communion Office requires that each Feast shall be announced to the congregation on… …
67Ordinary of the Mass — The Ordinary of the Mass (Latin: Ordo Missae) is the set of texts of the Roman Catholic Church Latin Rite Mass that are generally invariable. This contrasts with the proper, which are items of the Mass that change with the feast or following the… …
68feasts — Certain established festivals or holidays in the ecclesiastical calendar. These days were anciently used as the dates of legal instruments, and in England the quarter days, for paying rent, are four feast days. The terms of the courts, in England …
69feasts — Certain established festivals or holidays in the ecclesiastical calendar. These days were anciently used as the dates of legal instruments, and in England the quarter days, for paying rent, are four feast days. The terms of the courts, in England …
70Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary — The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Marian litany originally approved in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V. It is also known as the Litany of Loreto, for its first known place of origin, the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto (Italy), where its usage was… …
