Epiphany Sentence Examples

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  • In the first grade, I experienced an epiphany that girls were always treated differently than boys.

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  • His everyday reports seems to consist of one epiphany after another, followed by periods of self-doubt and isolation.

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  • Like all great records, the seeds of baptism came from personal epiphany.

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  • A ' new Epiphany ' will not just happen by itself.

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  • Shortly after his epiphany, McKay acquired his first patent and licensed his technology to additional manufacturers.

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  • A canon of a council at Saragossa in 380, forbidding the faithful to be absent from church during the three weeks from the 17th of December to the Epiphany, is thought to be an early reference to Advent.

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  • This proved to be a tremendous epiphany for Jose Silva, as he was convinced he had discovered a technique to help the human mind tap its true potential.

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  • His gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, each little epiphany of everyday Parisian life.

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  • Christmas cakes run the gamut from plain cakes decorated with red and green icing to fruitcake, Italian Panettone, and King Cake, which is served on the Epiphany to celebrate the arrival of the kings to the manger.

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  • The former (except that of the Epiphany) have special offices; in the latter the vigil is merely commemorated.

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  • It may be discerned in the interpolations in the prayers; possibly in the reference to the chief deacon, for elsewhere no single deacon is distinguished by name until the close of the 4th century; in the reference to the Epiphany, which is first heard of elsewhere at the beginning of the 4th century.

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  • They agreed with Byzantines in observing Lent, Christmas and Epiphany, but differed from them in the observance of all other feasts and fasts.

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  • We are unable to form an opinion of Hippolytus as a preacher, for the Homilies on the Feast of Epiphany which go under his name are wrongly attributed to him.

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  • It was one of the gifts offered by the Magi, and a royal oblation of gold, frankincense and myrrh is still annually presented by the sovereign on the feast of Epiphany in the Chapel Royal in London, this custom having been in existence certainly as early as the reign of Edward L 1 True myrrh is the product of Balsamodendron (Commiphora) Myrrha, a small tree of the natural order Amyridaceae that grows in eastern Africa and Arabia, but the name is also applied to gum resins obtained from other species of Balsamodendron.

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  • The ark kept at Axum is described as 2 feet high, covered with gold and gems. The liturgy was celebrated on it in the king's palace at Christmas, Epiphany, Easter and Feast of the Cross.

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  • Held against Chalcedon, uniting the Baptism and Christmas feasts on the 6th of January (Epiphany), declaring for monophysitism, and adopting in the Trisagion the words "who wast crucified for us."

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  • In the 17th century great quantities of cloth were sold at the Friday market, and four fairs were held at the feasts of St Michael, the Epiphany, St Mark, and the Decollation of St John the Baptist.

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  • It was then kept on the 14th of February, forty days after Epiphany, the celebration of the Nativity (Christmas) not having been as yet introduced; the Armenians still keep it on this day, as " the Coming of the Son of God into the Temple."

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  • The custom of baptizing in the rivers when they are annually blessed at Epiphany, the feast of the Lord's baptism, still survives in.

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  • January 6th is La Festa dell'Epifania, or the Feast of the Epiphany.

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  • The larger gift exchange that many people in other countries enjoy on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning is usually held later in Italy on the day of Epiphany each January 6.

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  • A Russian Orthodox believer takes a ritually purifying bath in the icy Moskva river during the Epiphany holiday.

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  • In effect the fathers of the Armenian church often fell back into such language, far removed as it is from orthodoxy; and they em phasized the importance of thebaptismal feast of the Epiphany on the 6th of January by refusing to accept the feast of the physical birth of the 25th of December.

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  • Amongst the festivals mentioned are the Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost.

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  • It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denisov were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany.

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  • The Epiphany is a Christian feast day that commemorates Christ's baptism and God incarnate in human form.

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  • The Epiphany also marks the end of the Christmas celebration in Italy.

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  • Susan Ashworth A gently lilting carol which could be used during Epiphany.

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  • But how does Huck reach this epiphany and who did Twain base his character on?

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