vigil
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my birdwatching vigils lasted for hours
a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.
The Christmas pageant involving the children from Culleens and Kilglass N.S. will take place during the Gospel at the Christmas night vigil Mass in Kilglass Church.
(in the Christian Church) the eve of a festival or holy day as an occasion of religious observance.
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We kept 'vigil' by his bedside for hours until for me three in the morning and for my mother four in the morning.
as he lay in a coma the family kept 'vigil'
Over 300 people attended the 'vigil' in support of the family, with about 150 joining a subsequent march on New Scotland Yard.
If we could take a look now at those live pictures of St. Peter's Square, to an estimated 70,000 people have gathered to maintain a 'vigil' and to pray for the pope.
For two weeks, various members of the family kept 'vigil' by his bedside in intensive care.
Take her to an Easter 'vigil' or to an Eastern Orthodox Easter midnight service: dramatic-and she gets to stay up late.
Now parents will be able to take a break from their bedside 'vigil' happy they can watch their child's every movement on a TV screen in a private room downstairs.
While she spent her evenings preparing, he maintained an intermittent 'vigil' at the bedroom window, offering some grudging help between observing sessions.
The Christmas pageant involving the children from Culleens and Kilglass N.S. will take place during the Gospel at the Christmas night 'vigil' Mass in Kilglass Church.
The 'vigil' Mass for Christmas will take place in Rathdowney Church on Christmas Eve at 9pm.
In the old days families kept 'vigil' and ate little ‘Soul’ cakes.
On March 27, about 200 teachers and students from the Wellington and Hutt Valley regions staged a protest 'vigil' outside parliament.
The Senior Traditional Group will perform at the 'vigil' Mass on the third Saturday of every month.
But when I came and kept 'vigil' in his armchair while he lay on his left ribs, his back rolled around him like an exoskeleton, all night I stared at his books neat in their shelves.
Several shoppers and passers-by paused to observe the 'vigil' .
Abandoned by their father, forsaken by neighbors, Bolas and the children kept 'vigil' over their mother.
the group held a candlelight 'vigil' outside the jail
The time for the 'vigil' mass in Kilglass Church on Saturday evenings has now been changed from 9pm to 7pm for the winter months.
A loyal dog kept 'vigil' for more than a week beside a woman who died in her Bolton home.
On Holy Saturday they visit Jasconius the whale to keep the Easter 'vigil' , and sing the first mass of Easter on his back.
The Easter Offering for the support of the priests of the parish will be taken up at the Easter 'vigil' and Easter Sunday morning.
It is at pains to point out that much of the ceremony took place during the Christmas 'vigil' and on the feast of the Nativity.
A mourner, fallen asleep in a late-night 'vigil' , awakes the next morning to find that not only are his trousers missing, but the corpse has been stolen as well.
Since the executions were held very early in the mornings, we found that prisoners kept 'vigil' through the night, staying awake with the woman who was to be executed.
His travels were circular, he and his companions returning each year to celebrate the Easter 'vigil' on the back of an enormous fish, Jasconius.
Now Lauren, from Worsley, and her partner, Ashley Easdale, are keeping a bedside 'vigil' to watch his progress.
Some fans were seen weeping and praying for his fast recovery while others kept 'vigil' in a nearby church.
She was later transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where her parents were this morning keeping a bedside 'vigil' .
Neither the Christmas 'vigil' nor the Christmas day service provoked any great amount of tension in either party.
The press was informed and, as older people will remember, it seemed that the whole world gathered in a 'vigil' around his deathbed.
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