Sentence examples for important feasts from inspiring English sources

"Green for standard time; purple for Lent and Advent; red for the Pentecost and the Feast of the Martyrs; and white for the most important feasts like Christmas and Easter," Lorenzo explained.

ACROSS the world, Catholics and some eastern Christians (those who use the modern calendar) are today marking one of the most important feasts in the church year: the end of the Virgin Mary's earthly life and her elevation to heaven.

During the three important dates known as Sanyuan, the most important feasts were held.

Theophany is one of the most important feasts celebrated in Eastern churches, and is considered to be even more important than Christmas.

Passengers said the cars were especially full of children because so many families were headed south for the most important feast day of the Muslim calendar.

They were upset because Henryk Hoser, the archbishop of Warsaw-Praga, had decided to shut down their local church, less than a week before the most important feast in the liturgical calendar.

Three times a year, the registers were updated at the same time as an important feast.

The high altar is used for the cathedral's services on the most important feast days in the church calendar.

Both stampedes occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam's most important feast and the day of the stoning ritual.

Easter day is ''so beautiful, and so ugly because of the rain," Francis said after Mass about Christianity's most important feast day.

Although he had been raised Catholic and graduated from Catholic grammar schools and high schools, and although he attended Mass during important feast days, he had, at least as long as I had known him, never been overtly religious.