Meanings of pastoral visitation in English

There was but one service a week, and no pastoral visitation whatever.

The lecture platform has been to me a pastoral visitation.

Four horses and a lawyer to a pastoral visitation!

Then, the first pastoral visitation!

The Rector of Merefield was returning from a short pastoral visitation towards the close of an afternoon at the beginning of November.

But I do not forget that we are not yet concerned directly with pastoral visitation as such; we are thinking of incidental social intercourse.

Let no minister who would be found of God clothed and canopied over with humility ever lose sight of his communion-roll and pastoral visitation-book.

And then, as Dr. Joseph Parker says, who says everything so plainly and so powerfully: 'There is pastoral preaching as well as pastoral visitation.

I next encountered a good Wesleyan minister, trudging his morning circuit of pastoral visitation, but could gain nothing from him, tho a chatty, communicative man.

Under his leadership, through his preaching and pastoral visitations the church was aroused, and the result a revival.

One and all, they missed his pastoral visitations, his incisive sermons on the righteousness of honest living; above all else, they missed his voice.

I was young, impetuous, and impatient; eager to reform the abuses and disorders which from time to time I met with in my pastoral visitations.

Elliott Sherwood had got back from his pastoral visitations, and was training his sweet peas in the way they should go against the garden fence.