fixed feast

fixed feast
an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas (December 25)

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  • Fixed feast — A fixed feast is an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas, as distinguished from moveable feasts, such as Easter, whose calendar date varies …   Wikipedia

  • fixed feast —  Непереходящие праздники …   Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов

  • feast — Synonyms and related words: High Holiday, High Holy Day, Lucullan feast, Mardi Gras, Sabbath, Saturnalia, Sunday, allay, anniversary, appease, assuage, bank holiday, banquet, bean feast, beano, birthday, blow, blowout, board, bread, bread and… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Feast of Guardian Angels —     Feast of Guardian Angels     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Feast of Guardian Angels     This feast, like many others, was local before it was placed in the Roman calendar. It was not one of the feasts retained in the Pian breviary, published in… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary —     Feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary     In its principal object this feast is identical with the feast of the Inner Life of Mary , celebrated by the Sulpitians on 19 October …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Feast of the Cross — Russian icon of Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (icon from Yaroslavl by Gury Nikitin, 1680. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). Liturgical year Western Advent …   Wikipedia

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  • Feast of the Most Precious Blood — The Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ was a feast included in the General Roman Calendar from 1849 to 1969. Contents 1 History 2 Significance 3 Prayer 4 References …   Wikipedia

  • movable feast — noun a day of note, frequently Christian, the date of which moves from year to year according to a set of rules. Ant: fixed feast, immovable feast …   Wiktionary

  • Moveable feast — This article is about Christian holy days. For the book by Ernest Hemingway, see A Moveable Feast. In Christianity, a moveable feast or movable feast is a holy day – a feast day or a fast day – whose date is not fixed to a particular day of the… …   Wikipedia

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