Word: feast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope Pius XI, whose words he had often translated into English, notably in the first international papal broadcast last year, and in the encyclical on "Catholic Action," which Monsignor Spellman carried to Paris, translating as he went. Last week the Pope affectionately recalled that on the same day, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he himself had taken possession of the Archbishopric of Milan. Then Pius XI received Bishop Spellman's relatives, gave the men gold medals, the women rosaries. Bishop Spellman got a large gold medallion for his mother. But his honors were...
...candles in church is older than the church itself. Liturgical candles are traditionally of beeswax, for bees were once supposed to be virgin. The great paschal candle typifies Christ's flesh, its wick His soul, its flame the all-absorbing Divinity. On Candlemas Day (Feast of the Purification, Feb. 2) there is a special ceremony for blessing candles. A burning candle is placed in the hand of a person at baptism, and as Death comes...
...Aida, Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera tenor, made his Cincinnati debut and when his first aria rang far out over the Zoo grounds the wisest of the monkeys knew that another season was safely under way, scratched their whiskers eagerly for the intermission peanut feast...
...Pope's remedies for these manifold evils are Prayer, Penance, Mortification. For this purpose he set the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 3, for the beginning of eight days of prayer for deliverance...
...some 25 people, most of them old ladies. He soon changed that by inviting Parsees, Chinese, Persians to conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York began to twitter. In 1923 there was a famed dance service, celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas, which was erroneously reported in the Press as a "bare-leg, bare-hip affair." Actually it was performed by a troupe of respectable, well-clad Barnard girls. But Bishop William Thomas Manning refused to countenance Dr. Guthrie's practices, forbade any further goings-on. Dr. Guthrie...