watchnight

At watchnight services, many Christians prepare for the year ahead by praying and making these resolutions.

Rhoda P. Curtis: New Year's Resolutions Rhoda P. Curtis 2012

At watchnight services, many Christians prepare for the year ahead by praying and making these resolutions.

Rhoda P. Curtis: New Year's Resolutions Rhoda P. Curtis 2012

After a watchnight service, they had spent the first moments of the consecrated new year in making a gathering from their hard-earned wages.

God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe

The doctrines once almost peculiar to Wesley and his followers -- such as entire sanctification -- are now accepted and taught by many Churches, and the religious usages of Methodism are imitated, watchnight services being held, and revival mission services and prayer-meetings being conducted, in Anglican churches; while the hymns of Charles

Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling

"The household are in the chapel, where it had been better thou hadst let us bide, and given the corpse a quiet watchnight -- the vigils for the dead are not ended."

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

Consider how Ronald Reagan, in his greatest speech as president, at Pointe du Hoc on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, depicted the watchnight before the invasion: "General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: 'I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.'"

Claremont.org 2009

a watchnight service was held, beginning at eight o'clock P.M., and closing at half-past twelve A.M. Mr. Cooper says of it:

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887

The first widespread "independence" celebration, better known as Watchnight Service, was December 31, 1863 in anticipation of emancipation on January 1, 1863. Watchnight Services are widely held in black churches across the country every year and reflects our "double consciousness."

Rev. Dr. Forrest Pritchett on Juneteenth, 2020 - Seton Hall University Seton Hall University 2020