Sentence examples for ecclesiastical events from inspiring English sources
Town officials have been gearing up for a rousing — as far as ecclesiastical events go — welcome, with ringing bells, processional torches and the distribution of religious images with the pope's countenance on one side and a prayer on the back.
One of many dismaying ecclesiastical events of my formative years was the Catholic Church's sudden 1984 announcement that eating meat on Fridays was no longer a mortal sin.
John wrote an ecclesiastical history, recording events from the time of Julius Caesar (died 44 bc) to ad 586, in three volumes, of which only the third, treating the period 571 586, survives intact.
He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland Mary of Guise.
Many readers have asked me to explain matters legal and, in this case, ecclesiastical.
During his university career in Paris Henry was personally involved in almost all of the most important events in university and ecclesiastical life.
In an open letter to clergy in his synod, the bishop, who has six sons, one of whom is gay, said he had participated in the event as an act of "ecclesiastical disobedience".
After this event, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "the ecclesiastical element in the coronation ceremonial rapidly develop[ed]".
The event, under the auspices of the Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music, is to take place at 8 p.m. at St . Pauls Episcopal Cathedral.
The appointment of Edward M. Egan as the ninth Roman Catholic archbishop of New York represents more than just the filling of an ecclesiastical position; for the future of the city, it could be the political event of the year.
Consider this: commissioned by the city of Kiel for the Olympic Games in 1972 (Kiel hosted the sailing events of the Munich Olympics that year), Zimmermann completed the fair copy of the manuscript of the Ecclesiastical Action just before he killed himself.
