Word: feasting
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...Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when one's parishioners, like mine, feast upon onions and garlic...
...word encyclical. Ad Coeli Reginam (to the Queen of Heaven), the Pope established May 31 as the feast of Blessed Mary. Wrote the Pope: "The Son of God reflects on His . . . Mother the glory, the majesty, the power of Regality which springs from being associated with [Him] . . . Hence the Church ... acclaims her . . . Queen of Heaven...
...morning of Islam's greatest feast day, Aid el Kebir. On that day, by sacrificing a ram. the faithful learn whether the year to come is to be peaceful and prosperous-or disastrous...
Boston's Jan Steen is an important painting by an artist as yet poorly represented in America. The Dutch rank Steen (1626-1679) with the greatest-partly for his immense illustrative skill but even more for the gusto with which he embraced life in his pictures. His Feast may actually represent his own family, and he may be the laughing man facing the observer. The baby of the crowd wears a paper crown and rules the festivities. The older children seem to be playing a game like that in the nursery rhyme, "Jack be nimble...
...speech. Said nephew John: "I do not believe that the Communist powers of either Russia or China have shown a very great or genuine change of heart . . . One by one, the innocent countries are being eaten up by the Soviet walrus and the Chinese carpenter. We must stop this feast before there is nothing left." Only powerful, determined and united opposition, said John Eden, will make them change their plans. "We should have a complete change of outlook among the people of our country...