Sentence examples for day of feast from inspiring English sources

At border-area mosques that had been preparing for a day of feast and joy, people gathered instead to grieve at funerals.

By Shahnaz Habib August 30, 2011 Tuesday was Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that marks the end of thirty days of Ramadan fasting with a day of feasting and a temporary cessation of family feuds.

It was a festive occasion, a long night of prayer followed by a day of feasting, a day when children present their parents with flowers and parade about in their finest clothes.

But Purim is not only a day of feasting and merrymaking; it is so much more.

Prophets like Amos (4-5) and Isaiah 59-666) proclaimeday day of judgment on those who oppressed the poor, which would also be a day of feasting for their victims.

It turned out to be people celebrating the last day of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Feast of St. Paulinus of Nola.

The third day of the feast was for giving thanks and games.

Then she read or heard of the old tradition that, on the day of the Feast of the Assumption, water is a cure.

The day of our feast, Thurman, despite her vibe as hip angel, is not in heaven exactly when I relay the story about the pearls.

The feast, held in honour of the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (the first Sunday after Pentecost and the day of the Feast of the Holy Trinity), had begun in 1246 as a local celebration founded by the bishop of Liège.

The two attacks happened around 8 a.m. as followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric, were attending prayers for the first day of the feast.