(n.) The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.
Example Sentences:
(1) But for the French it has already passed: there, it is celebrated on 2 February, the feast of Candlemas, or La Chandeleur .
Jesus
Definition:
(n.) The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
(3) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
(4) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
(5) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
(6) I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour.
(7) Recalling the triumphant welcome into Jerusalem, Francis said Jesus "awakened so many hopes in the heart, above all among humble, simple, poor, forgotten people, those who don't matter in the eyes of the world".
(8) I turned to Hillcoat, happier than I'd ever seen him in the economy seat beside me: "Jesus Christ, John, how much did we drink?
(9) The eminent historian Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University and a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, has jumped to Gove's defence, attacking the "pomposity" of the curriculum's detractors.
(10) 62 min Spain make a double substitution: Jesus Navas replaces the superfluous Sergio Busquets, and Fernando Torres replaces the disappointing David Silva.
(11) It just sort of clicked, because to me it was my version of gospel, but it wasn't about Jesus.
(12) Tracy is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and was dean of students and principal of Holy Names Academy in Seattle from 1975 to 1995, according to Eastside Catholic’s website, which also credits her for serving as the National Catholic Educational Association’s director of advancement services, providing "consulting services to hundreds of schools across the nation".
(13) And Jesus Christ, we don’t know about him – it seems as if he may have just been a Jewish radical, so if I had to pick one… heheheheh!” He cackles like a crazy.
(14) The student, Madinah Javed, 19, read from the book of Maryam, which tells the story of Jesus’s birth.
(15) He is a second Jesus for us, a second father for Filipinos,” she said.
(16) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(17) Vatican officials appear to have been flummoxed after Pope Francis was presented with a communist crucifix depicting Jesus nailed to a hammer and sickle by Bolivia’s president Evo Morales.
(18) As one of his secular peers in the House of Lords puts it: "Justin sees Jesus everywhere."
(19) Jesus, it's like Save The Last Dance never happened.
(20) Give generosity to those who seek to form opinion and discernment to those who vote, that our nation may prosper and that with all the peoples of Europe we may work for peace and the common good; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.