: to look at (something or someone) with great pleasure We feasted our eyes on the colors of the autumn landscape.

These include: (1) large population centers; (2) monumental architecture and unique art styles; (3) shared communication strategies; (4) systems for administering territories; (5) a complex division of labor; and (6) the division of people into social and economic classes.

Near Antonyms for plod. break, ease (up), let up, slacken.

look at somebody/something and get great pleasure: Wow! Come and feast your eyes on this birthday cake!

(Entry 1 of 2) 1a : an elaborate and usually abundant meal often accompanied by a ceremony or entertainment : banquet. b(1) : something that gives unusual or abundant enjoyment a visual feast.

What is another word for feast?

While Easter is treated as Feast of Feasts, the following eight feasts of Christ are assigned the highest rank of the Great Feasts in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars: Feast of the Cross — 14 (27) September.

Feasting is celebrating with food. It is a time when we enjoy the abundance of God’s provision for us together with others. There are many examples of feasting in the Bible, from Abraham’s feast to celebrate Isaac being weaned, to the wedding supper of the Lamb when Jesus returns.

• Christian Passover.
• Christian Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)
• Christian Feast of Trumpets.
• Christian Day of Atonement.
• Christian Feast of Tabernacles.
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The Three Pilgrimage Festivals, in Hebrew Shalosh Regalim (שלוש רגלים), are three major festivals in Judaism—Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Weeks or Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles, Tents or Booths)—when the ancient Israelites living in the Kingdom of Judah would make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem, as …

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The Fruit of the Holy Spirit is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit, according to chapter 5 of the Epistle to the Galatians: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. …

Despite serious resistance, tithing became obligatory as Christianity spread across Europe. It was enjoined by ecclesiastical law from the 6th century and enforced in Europe by secular law from the 8th century.

Outside of Advent, Lent and Eastertide, a solemnity falling on a Sunday is celebrated in place of the Sunday. A Feast pertaining to the Lord (e.g. Transfiguration) falling on a Sunday during Ordinary Time replaces the Sunday Liturgy and such will have the Credo recited at Mass.

A Look at Catholic Holy Days

The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, also called Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday, commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into heaven.

The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated on the 40th day of Easter, always a Thursday; the Orthodox tradition has a different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition, and while the Anglican Communion continues to observe the feast, many Protestant churches have abandoned the observance.

Ascension, in Christian belief, the ascent of Jesus Christ into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection (Easter being reckoned as the first day). Prior to that time, the Ascension was commemorated as a part of the celebration of the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

Dear Lord, look upon me like the Good Thief and I should be so lucky, full of Peace. Amen.