So when there isn't the time or wherewithal to come up with a full blown feast of loveliness, it's still possible to produce a very pleasing affair with some really simple stuff.
From his earliest appearance in the Gospel of Luke to the full-blown Feast of the Divine Circumcision in the medieval period, Christ circumcised represents a new way of imagining Christians and their creation of a new religious culture.
I have come to navigate Passover and Holy Week/Easter fairly well - but Purim and Holy Week?! Yet underneath it all there are some resonances: Holy Week is, after all, a re-enactment of a story about Jesus, full of feasts, betrayals, decrees by leaders of powerful empires, executions, and a surprise turn around three days later.
With its throne room, its patterned floor and its wide and towering gables, this was "the hall of halls", full of feasting and harping but, the poet adds ominously, "awaiting a barbarous burning".
The book explores the intersection of the visual arts and jazz music, and presents a visual feast of full color plates of artworks, preceded by a series of essays.
It's a back catalogue that would make any television network envious -- a feast of full seasons of hit shows that are perfect for your living room set.
It was also a feast of full-blooded orchestral playing, given by an orchestra whose affection for Kurt Masur is coming right to the surface in these closing months of his tenure as music director.
The New Year is determined by the yam harvest for Trobrian Islanders of Melanesia, as well as the Hausa of Ghana who call it the "Feast of the Full Stomach".
The New Year is determined by the yam harvest for Trobrian Islanders of Melanesia, as well as the Hausa of Ghana who call it the "Feast of the Full Stomach". The all-important Festival of the Yam marks the beginning of the Nigerian Yoruban calendar year with fasting, sacrificial offerings, and finally, great elaborate feasting.
Surprise your honey by having a full chocolate feast instead of the usual fare.
