moveable feasts
Holidays without fixed dates
Moveable feasts are religious holidays that fall on different calendar dates each year, calculated by formulas rather than fixed to specific days.
Easter is the prime example, its date determined by lunar cycles and shifting annually.
The phrase extends figuratively to any recurring event without a set time: Thanksgiving dinner at our house is a moveable feast—whenever everyone can make it.
- EasterResurrection commemoration day
- LentChristian fasting season
- Good FridayCrucifixion memorial day
- Palm SundayChristian observance before Easter
- PentecostSpirit's arrival celebration
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- church feastsholy day, solemnity, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Christmas Day
- liturgical calendarchurch year, Advent, Lent, Holy Week, Easter
- Orthodox feastsEpiphany, Pentecost, Annunciation, Transfiguration, Palm Sunday
- liturgical textsmissal, breviary, lectionary, psalter, prayer book
moveable feastsChristmas
Winter nativity celebration
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