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Meanings of church calendar in English

A calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals.

Synonyms
Examples for "ecclesiastical calendar"
Examples for "ecclesiastical calendar"
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According to the ecclesiastical calendar, Carnevale is the period between Epiphany and Lent, the last celebration before the Lenten fast.
The Irish Times
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But the firm also forgot to allow for the ecclesiastical calendar, and the stoppage of work on the numberless fete days.
Lectures and Essays
Usage of church calendar in English
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They form an important feature of church life, and an important date in the church calendar.
Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in Ameri...
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From early times the church calendar has set aside special seasons for prayer focused on vocations and ordination.
The Irish Times
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For many members of this globe-spanning flock, the annual celebration is the high point of the church calendar.
Reuters
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To the credit of the clergy of Brixen, his practical often pithy remarks are published in their church calendar.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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One holiday they observe, partly perforce, partly from choice, though it is not one of the great festivals of the church calendar,-St.Ilya's Day.
Russian Rambles
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Up until then, the emphasis in the Church calendar of festivals was on mid-summer.
The Guardian
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In the Church calendars, Jan. 13th (following "Twelfth Night"), is still kept as "St.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
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Church calendars tend to be devoted to saints, rather than vegetables, with September 29th being assigned to the Archangel Michael.
The Irish Times
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After the last hymns are sung, the congregation disperses slowly, many lingering in their seats to peruse their church calendars.
The crimson petal and the white
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'And I am not disposed to object to a saint of the English Church Calendar.'
Gryll Grange
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A LITTLE-known Irish saint is about to be wiped off the church calendars and to lose his place in the history books.
The Irish Times
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"The Swindlers' Gazette, of course, or the Church Calendar."
The Gadfly
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IN church calendars, today's date is devoted to what must surely be the only saint ever to have a type of firework named after her.
The Irish Times