Advent Sunday
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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On the morning of the first Advent Sunday, Stuttgart was quiet and peaceful.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2015
Some of these verses were sung in the College Chapel on the evening of Advent Sunday, 1853.
From Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir by Murray, Thomas Boyles
Such poems as that for Advent Sunday, or the Second Sunday after Trinity, contain between seventy and eighty heroic lines.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
The Altar Table, from a design by Mr. Garner, was first used on Advent Sunday, 1902; and the woodwork round the chancel was finished in 1911.
From A Short Account of King's College Chapel by Littlechild, Walter Poole
He commenced to write sacred poetry in 1724, and on Advent Sunday of that year began a cycle of “Profitable Thoughts,” so he termed them, upon the Sunday and Saints' Day Gospels.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
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