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Angelus

RC Church
1. a series of prayers recited in the morning, at midday, and in the evening, commemorating the Annunciation and Incarnation
2. the bell (Angelus bell) signalling these prayers
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Angelus Plaza, a Retirement Housing Foundation affordable senior housing community in Los Angeles, provides apartment housing and services for 1,262 low-income seniors and people with disabilities.
While Duterte was lambasting the priest, church bells tolled for the Angelus. Duterte, who is known for his tough talk and cursing, paused and fell silent for 46 seconds.
The Angelus comes from a time when most people labored in the field like beasts of burden.
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However the main reason most people wouldn't be fooled by it is that it's a crude reproduction of a famous 19th century painting, 'The Angelus', by Jean-Franois Millet.
Peter's Square before praying the Angelus on Palm Sunday, the Pope prayed for the people of Colombia, South America.
A strangely-named album that takes its name - as you probably all know - from 17th Century German mystic and poet Angelus Silesius who said: "The rose is without why, she blooms because she blooms.'' So 24-year-old Rose reckons this offering exists in its own right without needing justification and she wonders if anyone would care about it.
SOMEONE, let's call him Mr Ian Sane, has complained that broadcasting the Angelus on RTE may lead to child abuse.
I only realized the importance of praying the Angelus years later, after comptemplating Jean-Francois Millet's The Angelus.
Angelus replaces Kimberly Betts, a manager in human capital of Deloitte & Touche.
The convent's website says: "We start each day invoking the anointing of the Holy Spirit with the sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus in the company of Mary the Mother of God in the prayer of the Angelus."
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