Word: feasts
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...seems strange that the church should make the feasts of the patrons of Uganda and Japan mandatory while making optional the feast of the Irish patron, St. Patrick...
...literally billions of miles with Catholics, Protestants, Jews and even agnostics, he was one of 46 saints who were dropped from the calendar because there is no proof that they ever existed. Though they are still considered saints, the hierarchy can no longer officially require observance of their former feast days...
Other saints-like the Roman martyr Valentine, Bishop Nicholas of Myra (the original Santa Claus), England's patron St. George and Ireland's redoubtable St. Patrick-may still have mandatory feast days on national calendars but are now "optional" on the universal church calendar. Now mandatory on this worldwide calendar, however, are the feasts of such pointedly non-Caucasian saints as Paul Miki of Japan and the Martyrs of Uganda...
...Feast or Famine. Now Canada's problem is finding buyers. Even the Russians, saddled with their own surplus, seem disinclined to accept the final 150 million bushels of wheat that they had ordered in 1966 as part of one of the largest grain sales ever concluded. Last month, the five major wheat producers met in Washington to shore up the sagging price floors, but the meeting adjourned without agreement...
Farming has been a feast-or-famine business for almost as long as history has recorded harvests. Today's bins of surplus food serve as pointed reminders that most agricultural policies are inadequate, inconsistent and archaic. The cost of subsidized farming in the Common Market is more than $2 billion a year; in the U.S. it is $3.6 billion. Yet prices are erratic, and people go hungry. Agricultural technology has shown that the Malthusian apocalypse of starvation can be avoided. The immense task now for the producers is to devise the economic and political conveyor belts that could...