| TABLES and RULES for the Moveable and Immoveable Feusts; I together with the Duys of Fasting and Abstinence through the whole * Year. RULES, to know when the Moveable Feasts and holy-Days begin. MASTER-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 larch; and if the Full Moon happen upon a Sunray, Easter-lay is 'the Sunday ster. Advent Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether before or after.. Septuagesima ( Nine Eight Weeks before Seven Easter Six S Forty Days' ( After Easter Seven Weeks (Eight Weeks ) A TABLE OF FEASTS, to be observed in this Church, throughout the Year. il Sundays in the Year. St. Bartholomew the Apostle. The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS St. Matthew the Apostle. CHRIST. St. Michael and All Angels. 'he Epiphany, . St. Luke the Evangelist. 'he Conversion of St. Paul. St. Simon and St. Jude, the Apostles. 'he Purification of the Blessed Virgin. All Saints. t. Matthias the Apostle. St. Andrew the Apostle. 'he Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. St. Thomas the Apostle. t. Mark the Evangelist. The Nativity of our Lord JESUS t. Philip and St. James, the Apostles. | CHRIST. he Ascension of our Lord JESUS St. Stephen the Martyr. CHRIST. St. John the Evangelist. t. Barnabas. The Holy Innocents. be Nativity of St. John the Baptist Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week. t. Peter the Apostle. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsunt. James the Apostle. | Week. A TABLE OF FASTS. Good-Friday. ther Days of Fasting; on which the Church requires such a measure of Abstinence, as is more especially suited to extraordinary Acts and Exercises of Devotion. 1st. The Season of Lent. 2d. The Ember-Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and aturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, nd December 13. Sd. The three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday fore Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord. 4th. All the Fridays in the Year, except Christmas-Day. . In addition to the above, the first Thursday in November (or, if any other day : appointed by the civil autlıority, then such day) shall be observed as a day of hanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Blessgs of liis merciful Providence. 1 TABLE of the days on which Easter will fall for thirty-eight Years, being the Time of two Cycles of the Moon lof ourke 8 The --NEcEpact. 311. Marco) GF April 7 E March 23 April 12 25 BA . 2 Marcb 31 April 20 12 -- 24 8 March 30 1 March 27 D April 19 April 10 1 . 3 A March 26 FE March 23 April 16 [ 1 Ꭰ . ) April 12 16 F March 31 15 C 26 B AG ! F March 31 & TABLE of the Mave able Feasts, according to the swoeral Duys thut Easier can possibly fall upon. Saster Sun. Sept. First Day Ascen- Whit- Sunday | Advent Day. Jaf. Epi. Sun. of Lent. Sion D. sundav. Iaf. Trin. Sunday Var.22) 1 Jan. 181 Feb. 4 April 30 May 10127 23 1 19 5 May 1 1127 2411 201 12 .27 Note, That in a Bissextile or Leap-Year, the number of Sundays after Epiphany will be the same as if Easter-Day bad 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 EL Cuat nafront. Golden Day of the Sundaylı Golden Day of the Sunday THE Golden Numbers in Num. Month. Letter. Num. Munth. Letter. the foregoing CalenMarch 22 April 8 G dar, will point out the Days 9 A of the Paschal Full Moons, 10] B till the year of our Lord 11 C 1900; at which time, in or12 D der that the Ecclesiastical 13 E Full Moons may fall nearly 14 F on tlte same days with the 15 G real Full Moons, the Golden Numbers must be re moved to different days of pril the Calendar, as is done in the annexed Table, which contains so much of the 21 F Calendar then to be used, 22 G as is necessary for finding 23 A the Paschal Full Moons, 24 B and the Feast of Easter, 251 C from the Year 1900, to the | Year 2199, inclusive. This Table is to be made use of, in all respects, as the first Table, before inserted, for finding Easter, till the Year 1899. To find the Dominical I or Sunday Letter for any given Year of our Lord, add to the Year its fourth part, omitting fractions, and also the Number, which, in Table I. standeth at the top of the Column wherein the number of hundreds contained in that given Year is found: Divide the sum by 7, and if there be no remainder,then A. is the Sunday Letter; but if any Number remain, then the Letter which standeth under that Number at the top of the Table, is the Sunday Letter. |