Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 6, 2025
But alas! though starting in bravely he mixed Epiphany and Advent so hopelessly that the parson was forced to stop his wild wanderings. "Dear me! dear me!" Mr. Westmore exclaimed. "What are we to do? Surely Ruth can do better than this."
Both obstacles could have been surmounted, but Geoffrey resigns his claims in the Epiphany of the latter year, and gets a chancellorship with five hundred marks in England and the same in Normandy. His case is a bold instance of "that divorce of salary from duty" which even in those times was thoroughly understood. There is a story, one might almost say the usual story, of the storm at sea.
Epiphany is very specially the feast of a missionary Church, and the strongest appeal which it could address to Heathendom would be to cry, "See what Christianity has done for the world! Christendom possesses the one religion. Come in and share its blessings." There have been times and places at which that appeal could be successfully made.
From the eve of Epiphany there were twenty-eight degrees of frost with a strong wind; it was proposed to put off the fête, and this was not done only because the public, which for a long while had been looking forward to the fête impatiently, would not consent to any postponement.
And thus in fact the mysterious architect plays at hide-and-seek with his worlds. 'I will hide it, he says, 'and it shall be found again by man; I will withdraw it into distances that shall seem fabulous, and again it shall apparel itself in glorious light; a third time I will plunge it into aboriginal darkness, and upon the vision of man a third time it shall rise with a new epiphany.
How long have you been in the Brotherhood?" "Since the 14th of August." "And how long have you kept your cell?" "Since the octave of Epiphany." "But this is Lent rather a long penance, Father." "I have often urged our dear brother " began the Father. "You carry your fastings and prayers too far, Mr. Storm," said the Bishop.
Instead of happening at Christmas, as with us, the Italian festival is celebrated on the eve of Epiphany, the sixth of January. "Everyone is happy then," said Rafael, "and we shall forget Pompeii and the man-of-war which is always threatening it." So the children began at once to plan for the Twelfth-night festival.
When needed, it is suddenly produced without confusion, marked and numbered, ready to be put together and regilt or repainted, or hung with the acres of draperies which Latins know so well how to display in everything approaching to public pageantry. At dark, on the Eve of the Epiphany, the Befana begins.
It was January 6, 1482, and all Paris was keeping the double festival of Epiphany and the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was to be elected, and all who were competing for the post came in turn and made a grimace at a broken window in the great hall of the Palace of Justice. The ugliest face was to be acclaimed victor by the populace, and shouts of laughter greeted the grotesque appearances.
There is nothing so imprudent or so improvident as over-prudence or over-providence. Epiphany
Word Of The Day
Others Looking