Wiktionary
n. (context Christianity English) a holy day whose date is not fixed to a particular day of the calendar year but moves in response to the date of Easter
WordNet
n. a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years [syn: movable feast]
Wikipedia
The term movable, or moveable, feast or variants can refer to:
- Moveable feast, any annual religious observance (such as Easter) of which the calendar date varies from year to year.
- A Moveable Feast, a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway
- Moveable Feast (organization), a non-profit organization based in Baltimore that provides food and services to people afflicted with HIV/AIDS
- A Movable Feast, US edition of the 1974 album Fairport Live Convention from the band Fairport Convention
- "Moveable Feast", a track by Henry Mancini from the 1978 soundtrack album Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
- " Moveable Feast", a 2001 episode of the US television program Will & Grace
- A Moveable Feast, a 2007 album by The Sharp Things
Moveable Feast is a nonprofit organization based in Baltimore, Maryland which provides food and services to individuals suffering from HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and those afflicted with terminal illness. Its founder Baltimore City Health Department official Robert Mehl recognized a need in the community for such services during the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the United States. He assembled a committee at the direction of then-Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, and the organization was founded in 1990. In its first year the organization's staff of three provided food and services to 60 clients biweekly and twice per day. By 2001 this had increased to attending to the nutrition needs of about 550 people in the region.
In 2003, the organization launched a program to train people with culinary skills which they could then apply towards gaining employment in the workforce. Trainees in the program included prisoners on parole, homeless shelters, and halfway houses; it graduated 11 people in 2004. By 2004 its staff had grown to 32 with additional volunteers, and gave food to 700 people five days weekly. Initially created with a focus of helping AIDS patients, its service outreach had expanded by 2007 to include those diagnosed with breast cancer and terminal illnesses. It received a $200,000 unrestricted grant from Bank of America in 2013 which assisted the organization with creation of a new distribution center on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to help expand their delivery efforts to people throughout the region.
The Washington Post profiled the group early in its existence in 1990, noting it provided vital goods and services to sick people in the region who had difficulty leaving their residences. The Baltimore Afro-American reported on the organization and noted how crucial volunteering was to its success. The Baltimore Sun called it an important group providing sustenance to ill people in the area. Because of their efforts encouraging their employees to volunteer with Moveable Feast, the company SC&H earned the Mayor's Business Recognition Awards for outstanding community service from the mayor of Baltimore in 2014.
Usage examples of "moveable feast".
Chuck Atkinson was one of them, and when I saw him one morning in his house on a peak overlooking the town, he had just received a copy of A Moveable Feast.
There are memories of Paris as pungent and vivid as anything in A Moveable Feast.
Though he'd once heard the Countess define it as ten years older than whatever you were, a moveable feast.
I never lectured him on the advantage of braces over belts in a humid climate, specially for gentlemen whose waistline is what I call a moveable feast.
His other works include The Torrents of Spring (1926), Winner Take Nothing (1933), To Have and Have Not (1937), The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938), Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), and posthumously, A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), The Dangerous Summer (1985), and The Garden of Eden (1986).