FOR THE MOVEABLE AND IMMOVEABLE FEASTS; TOGETHER WITH THE DAYS OF FASTING AND ABSTINENCE, THROUGH THE WHOLE YEAR. RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. ASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the Sunday after. Advent-Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether before or after. Septuagesima Nine Sexagesima Eight Quinquagesima Sunday is Weeks before Easter. Seven Quadragesima Six A TABLE OF ALL THE FEASTS THAT ARE TO BE OBSERVED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. St. Andrew the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord. St. Stephen the Martyr. St. John the Evangelist. Monday and Tuesday in Easter-Week. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-Week. A TABLE OF THE VIGILS, FASTS, AND DAYS OF ABSTINENCE, TO BE OBSERVED IN THE YEAR. St. Andrew.-St. Thomas. Note, that if any of these Feast-Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Fast-Day shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it. A TABLE TO FIND EASTER-DAY, FROM THE PRESENT TIME TILL THE YEAR 1899 INCLUSIVE THIS Table contains so much of To find the Golden Number, or To find the Dominical or Sunday T To make use of the preceding Table, find the Sunday Letter for the Year in the uppermost Line, and the Golden Number, or Prime, in the Column of Golden Numbers, and against the Prime, in the same Line under the Sunday Letter, you have the Day of the Month on which Easter falleth that Year. But note, that the Name of the Month is set on the Left Hand, or just with the Figure, and followeth not, as in other Tables, by Descent, but Collateral. ADVENT SUNDAY. Nov. 29 Dec. Nov. 27 Nov. 27 Dec. Nov. 27 Nov. 27 Dec. Nov. 27 § 12 | | 2 | | | 2 | | | | | 2 | | 2 | | | 2 | | 2 | | | 2 | | 2 | Note, that in a Bissextile or Leap-Year, the Number of Sundays after Epiphany will be the same, as if Easter-Day had fallen One Day later than it really does. And for the same Reason, One Day must, in every Leap-Year, be added to the Day of the Month given by the Table for Septuagesima Sunday: And the like must be done for the First Day of Lent (commonly called Ash-Wednesday) unless the Table gives some Day in the Month of March for it; for in that Case, the Day given by the Table is the right Day. |