Increasingly, the churches opted for the Sunday celebration, and the Quartodecimans ("14th day" proponents) remained a minority.
ON THE eve of his first Easter Sunday celebration as bishop of Rome, Pope Francis sprang another of his teasing little surprises.
The festival recently received a loan of about $180,000 from the Edinburgh City Council and two grants for about the same amount but is still seeking a sponsor for its Sunday celebration.
Fifteen minutes after the silence of Split Mountain we drove beyond the boundaries of the state park and approached the Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area and a Sunday celebration of dust and deafening machinery.
The annual Palm Sunday celebration was replicated in many places where Christians pray — including St. Peter's in Rome — and, to an agnostic or atheist, their observance might seem no more than a winsome display of unshakeable belief in the utterly unprovable, arguably the essence of faith.
There used to be a noted Spa in Luddenden Dene, where it was reported one Spaw Sunday that the riff-raff had walked over from Old Town and Peckett Well in clogs and their workaday clothes, hardly the correct attire for a Sunday celebration.
