mid-Lent

The real mid-Lent was last Thursday, as we have already observed; but the Church, fearing lest the joy might lead to some infringement on the spirit of penance, has deferred her own notice of it to this Sunday, when she not only permits, but even bids, her children to rejoice!...

Archive 2009-03-01 elena maria vidal 2009

The real mid-Lent was last Thursday, as we have already observed; but the Church, fearing lest the joy might lead to some infringement on the spirit of penance, has deferred her own notice of it to this Sunday, when she not only permits, but even bids, her children to rejoice!...

Laetare Sunday elena maria vidal 2009

Betjeman reference to fiddleback chasubles in mid-Lent pink certainly refers to Pusey House, Oxford, even though Comper's work dates from after he went down but his nostalgic poem, 'Anglo-Catholic Congresses' puts Travers at St Augustine's, Queens Gate, South Kensington, more prominently into focus.

Archive 2008-03-16 papabear 2008

We are expecting you, we are preparing a mid-Lent fantasy; try to take part.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

He was an unabsolved excommunicate; not even a priest could help him, for in the mid-Lent council called the previous year by Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester, the king's brother and at that time papal legate, it had been decreed that no man who did violence to a cleric could be absolved by anyone but the Pope himself, and that not by any distant decree, but in the Pope's veritable presence.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

Lent is not so bad, for just before it comes the Carnival and the grotesque "Burial of the Sardine" by the _gente bajo_, and of the three great masked balls, one is given in mid-Lent, to prevent the Lenten ordeal being too trying, and Holy Thursday is always a _fiesta_ and day of enjoyment.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

I'm only waiting to make up my mind between velvet and brocade for the purple set to order a completely new lot, including a set in old rose damask for mid-Lent.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

In mid-Lent, when an early rush of almost summery warmth suddenly poured over the city, Chris and Norma met on the way home from church.

The Beloved Woman Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

We are expecting you, we are preparing a mid-Lent fantasy; try to take part.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

Soon after Trin Jans had been buried by the church, there was more and more talk about all kinds of mischief and strange vermin that had frightened the people in North Frisia, and there was no doubt that on mid-Lent Sunday the golden cock was thrown down by a whirlwind.

Paras. 600–699 1917