Sentences with phrase «early celebrations of»

Early celebrations of Christmas are thought to have had their origins in the midwinter festivals held around the time of the Solstice.

Thus the early celebration of Passover came to be celebrated as Good Friday and Easter.

The Polish international got the winner on Saturday as Borussia won 2 - 1 at Stuttgart to deny Bayern Munich an early celebration of the Bundesliga title.

I brought out my wedding shoes to wear with the dress for a special dinner date with Tommy (an early celebration of 5 years of being together today... crap that's a long time)!

The new dates are an early celebration of the musical's 20th anniversary since its debut (way back on January 25th, 1996).

Along this path, we see how Kapoor's sculpture has evolved from its early celebration of large - scale forms and the use of liberally applied powdered pigment to a more recent merging with architecture, as in his transformation of the Cumana station in Naples.

Not exact matches

In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

Twenty years later, in celebration of the anniversary of the first online purchase, Pizza Hut is offering customers a peek into the earliest days of ecommerce.

Don't Count Your Chickens: President Trump's celebration of North Korea's «denuclearization» is premature, argues Stephen F. Hayes — and it's not the first time he's taken an early victory lap.

The fact is, Christianity was pretty smart to incorporate many of the early Pagan celebrations in their rituals.

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt Scribner, 364 pages, $ 25 Early last November, high in the Catskills, I attended a celebration of Irish music and dance, the Green Linnet Twentieth Anniversary Festival.

Fortunately, early Americans abolished merely British celebrations and made July 4 a recommitment day, featuring readings of the Declaration of Independence.

Early Christians borrowed some of the symbolism of the various «Easter» celebrations they observed around them, and incorporated them into the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

In Luther especially, and also, we note, in the early Puritans, we find a positive view of the life of married love as a glorification of God and its joy as a celebration of God's goodness.

In the earliest tradition of the Exodus, we learn that Moses was leading Israel out to the wilderness for the celebration of a sacrifice in a rendezvous with YHWH.

But contrary to some of its marketing, this film is not a celebration of the Greenwich Village scene or the late 50s / early 60s folk movement.

Celebrations carried on into the early hours of Sunday, officially the first day of the Lunar New Year.

In fact, the Puritans of early colonial times shunned Christmas as they not only rejected pagan celebrations but also Catholicism.

Early last November, high in the Catskills, I attended a celebration of Irish music and dance, the Green Linnet Twentieth Anniversary Festival.

It still has the feel of the early Beatles» love - celebration mode, but it's moving into something else.

That is, the early Beatles had been most obviously about the celebration of young love: «Love Me Do,» «Please Please Me,» «She Loves You,» «I Saw Her Standing There,» «I Wan na Hold Your Hand,» «I Feel Fine,» etc..

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

Joseph Price suggests that the Super Bowl now signals a convergence of sports, politics, and myth — the basic elements of celebration united in many earlier cultures.

Those fortunate enough to have taken in Pope Benedict's celebration of Cardinal Newman — at both Saturday's prayer vigil, and the Mass and beatification early Sunday — were not disappointed.

The Christian Century earlier this year (June 4 - 11 issue) noted that Communist Party chief Erich Honnecker will officially chair the 1983 Luther celebration committee of East Germany.

The story was originally related in independence of the tomb pericope, and may even be an earlier tradition.24 It is typical of the haggadic stories, and is likely to have been frequently narrated at the celebration of the eucharistic meal.

In the early church this celebration generally included more than just bread and wine, though in the course of the meal this act of Jesus was repeated as the principal act in table fellowship.

Do I continue to hope, as I wrote earlier, that this Long Lent will bring us to resurrection and renewal, that the time of mea culpa will be succeeded by felix culpa, the celebration of happy fault that occasioned so great a redemption?

The foretaste of the End, realized through the Holy Spirit, becomes most clearly visible in the early Christian celebration of the breaking of bread.

Earlier this summer I attended a celebration for a woman I know who has recently become the first female in her place of employment to join the highest levels of the organization.

The gathering celebrated its 20th year last October at the Excel Arena in London with thousands of believers joyfully worshipping God in an overnight celebration from Friday evening through to the early hours of Saturday morning.

As far as the winter solstice and Christmas, there is no date given in scripture for the birth of Christ it may have actually been spring, early church leaders decided to celebrate it when they did to stamp out other pagan celebrations at the time.

Earlier we spoke of the example of the ancient creed from Deuteronomy — «My father was a wandering Aramaean, etc.» In this sense, to recount the story is one aspect of celebration.

Two years earlier, an album by a Christian country - rock band called Vigilantes of Love included a song that rivaled the Song of Solomon in its celebration of marital sex.

That's fine that the early Christians wanted to replace the pagan holiday with a celebration of the incarnation of God.

Recently a cult of denigration has replaced the celebration of America, and various fashionable fanaticisms (all of them political rather than religious) have reduced the easygoing tolerance of that earlier period.

This is echoed by non-Catholic writers: Massey H Shepherd in A Handbook of Christian Theology comments: «It is now commonly admitted... that in the early Church no clear distinction was drawn between baptism and confirmation, since both rites were part of a single complex of initiatory ceremonies that included also the celebration of the Eucharist...» 19

If you grew up attending church, there's a good chance your early years included celebrations of the first holiday and little mention of the latter two.

The fellowship was not only symbolized but also effected by the common meal, some kind or kiddush or «sanctification,» not now of the Sabbath but of the first day of the week, (Prof. E. F. Scott has advanced the view, in his recent work on The Nature of the Early Church (1941), that the Christian observance of Sunday resulted from the celebration of the common meal after the Jewish Sabbath observances were over.

We have no doubt that, in substantially the simple form just described, the making and meaning of the Sinai Covenant was from early times re-enacted in a kind of liturgical celebration.

The early Puritans did better, some of them achieving the goal of a weekly communion, although in time a monthly celebration became the rule.32

Pechanga Resort & Casino offers special dinners at many of their restaurants and several New Year's Eve celebrations at the night clubs and on the casino floor, come early to get your spot at any of their very popular count down areas.

Although poppies are manufactured nearly every day of the year at facilities in Aylesford, Kent and Richmond, Greater London to meet overwhelming public demand, James Cropper contacted charity representatives earlier in the year to arrange the symbolic start of production celebration and invite their special guest.

He slept for most of the evening, but we invited friends over for an early evening celebration.

And almost everyone in our circle of friends back then was starting to have kids, so the early celebration was convenient for all of our slumbering infants.

From November 3, 2017, to January 3, 2018, Heineken ® is using the Evite ® digital invitation platform to encourage consumers aged 21 + to decide early on — at the point of RSVP — whether they will be drinking or driving at holiday events and celebrations.

I should have learned my lesson two years ago in an earlier iteration of the Picnic Game (at Louise's Months of Edible Celebrations blog).

I love the early spring celebrations, and although I'm not at all into their commercial approach, they remind me of the simple things that really matter.

And Arsenal fans wonder why we annualy watch the EPl title celebrations elsewhere and get bitch slapped out of Europe early.

We'll hammer them 11 - 0 in celebration of winning Wenger's cup earlier than usual.