Festival

Afestivalis an extraordinary event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and itsreligionorcultures.

Quotes

• I despise your religious festivals;

your assemblies are a stench to me.

Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,

I will not accept them.

Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,

I will have no regard for them.

Away with the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

But letjusticeroll on like a river,

righteousnesslike a never-failing stream!

• Amos5:21-24NIV

• TheFive Nationswere primarily an agricultural people. After men cleared the fields surrounding the village, women would cultivatecorn, beans, and squash, the mainstays of the Iroquois diet.Wild nuts and berries gathered by the women, along with fish and game brought home by the men, rounded out Iroquois meals. Various yearly celebrations such as thePlanting Festival, the Green Corn Festival, and the Harvest Festival,were linked to the production of crops.
  • Richard Aquila,The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701-1754.U of Nebraska Press. January 1997. p. 31.ISBN 0-8032-5932-8.

• “The multitude of your sacrifices—

what are they to me?” says the Lord.

“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,

of rams and the fat of fattened animals;...

Your incense is detestable to me....

I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.

Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals

I hate with all my being....

Your hands are full of blood!...

Stop doing wrong.

Learn to do right; seekjustice.

Defend theoppressed."

• Isaiah1:11-17NIV

• After the persecution of the EmperorDecius,GregoryBishop ofNeocaesareainPontus,instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towardsGod,that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for thefaith(that is, to liemartyrs).
  • Isaac Newton,inObservations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the apocalypse of..., Volume 1,p. 204

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