Sentence examples for sabbath mornings from inspiring English sources

Through that half-millennium of history, Jews have gathered on Sabbath mornings like this one at the serene cusp of winter to pray and gossip in the Venice ghetto.

In short, he'll be there on screen most nights, chatting to the presenter who used to have his new job, and going head-to-head with Andrew Marr on Sabbath mornings.

It cheerfully embraces as part of its flock the large group of English people who would prefer to wash the car or nurse a hangover on Sabbath mornings but still show up in church for life's great moments: christenings, marriages, and funeral services, jocularly referred to by the clergy as "hatching, matching, and dispatching".

Many meet one Sabbath morning a month.

Bloch based his 50-minute score on the Sabbath morning service, using the Reform version common in the 1930s.

The distinctive features of the Sabbath morning synagogue service include the public reading of the Torah, or Five Books of Moses (the portion read varies from week to week), and, generally, the sermon, both of which serve to educate the listeners.

The arrests came shortly after the chief rabbi of Moscow, Yuhuda Liev Levin, announced during Sabbath morning services March 16 that Soviet authorities had informed him that state bakeries for the second consecutive year would not be available for baking matzoth.

(Eichler) * VOICES OF ASCENSION (Wednesday) This superb church choir, led by Dennis Keene, goes ecumenical in a program devoted to Hebrew sacred settings, namely Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" and Ernest Bloch's "Avodath Hakodesh," a setting of the Sabbath morning service.

On the Sabbath morning of Nov. 5, less than three weeks after the release of Sgt. First Class Gilad Shalit in a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas, Jews in synagogues throughout the world will read a Torah portion concerning Abraham's early journeys.

On the Sabbath morning of Oct. 12, exhausted from days of baking and feeding soldiers and now stragglers, Pleasant Hill's brothers and sisters were preparing for worship when a regiment of Southern cavalry formed into line at the north end of the village and put out pickets in the streets.

On a Sabbath morning in 1820, Ephraim Lyon, a 62-year-old farmer known as "the hardest man in town to drink under the table," got a brainstorm as he watched people walking toward the Congregational Church that regularly denounced him from the pulpit.