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. EASTER-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 happen upon a Sunday, Easter-day is the Sunday after. But Note that the Full Moon, for the purposes of these Rules and Tables, is the Fourteenth Day of a lunar Month, reckoned according to an ancient Ecclesiastical computation, and not the real or Astronomical Full Moon. Advent Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether before or after. TO BE OBSERVED IN THIS CHURCH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. All Sundays in the Year. The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. [St. Bartholomew the Apostle. The Epiphany. The Conversion of St. Paul. The Purification of the Blessed Virgin. St. Matthias the Apostle. The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. St. Mark the Evangelist. St. Philip and St. James the Apostles. The Ascension of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. St. Barnabas the Apostle. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist. St. Peter the Apostle. St. James the Apostle. St. Matthew the Apostle. St. Michael and all Angels. St. Luke the Evangelist. St. Simon and St. Jude the Apostles. All Saints. St. Andrew the Apostle. St. Thomas the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. St. Stephen the Martyr. St. John the Evangelist. The Holy Innocents. Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week. The Transfiguration of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-week. Ash Wednesday. A TABLE OF FASTS. Good Friday. OTHER DAYS OF FASTING, ON WHICH THE CHURCH REQUIRES SUCH A MEASURE OF ABSTINENCE AS IS MORE II. The Ember-days at the Four Seasons, being the The First Sunday in Lent. III. The three Rogation-days, being the Monday, In addition to the above, the first Thursday in November (or, if any other day be appointed by the Civil Authority, then such day) shall be observed as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Blessings of his merciful Providence. 0* The Numbers prefixed to the several Days, in the foregoing Calendar, between the twentyfirst Day of March and the eighteenth Day of April, both inclusive, denote the Days upon which those Full Moons do fall, which happen upon or next after the twenty-first Day of March, in those Years of which they are respectively the Golden Numbers: And the Sunday Letter next following any such Full Moon points out Easter-day for that Year. All which holds until the Year of our Lord 1899 inclusive; after which Year, the places of these Golden Numbers will be to be changed, as is hereafter expressed. To find Easter-day, look in the first column of the Calendar, between the 20th day of March and the 19th day of April, for the Golden Number of the Year, against which stands the Day of the Paschal Full Moon. Then look in the third column for the Sunday Letter next after the Day of the Full Moon; and the Day of the month standing against that Sunday Letter is Easter-day. If the Full Moon happen upon a Sunday, then (according to the first rule,) the next Sunday after is Easter-day. To find the Golden Number, or Prime, add 1 to the Year of our Lord, and then divide by 19; the remainder, if any, is the Golden Number; but if nothing remain, then 19 is the Golden Number. To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter, and the places of the Golden Numbers in the Calendar, see the General Tables which follow. A TABLE TO FIND THE DOMINICAL OR SUNDAY LETTER. YEARS IN EXCESS OF HUNDREDS OF YEARS. Το find the Dominical or Sunday Letter, according to the Calendar, for any given Year of our Lord, look for the next preceding Hundredth Year in the lower part of this Table, and for the Remainder of the number of the Year in the upper part; and against the Hundredth Year, under the Remainder, you have the Sunday Letter. NOTE, That in all Bissextile, or Leap-years, the Letter under the number marked with an asterisk is the Sunday Letter for the Months of January and February; and the Letter under the number not so marked is the Sunday Letter for the remainder of the Year. HUNDREDS OF YEARS. FROM THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1786, TO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 2013, BOTH INCLUSIVE, BEING THE TIME OF TWELVE CYCLES OF THE MOON. *NOTE. That the Years marked with an Asterisk are Bissextile or Leap-years. ACCORDING TO THE SEVERAL DAYS THAT EASTER CAN POSSIBLY FALL UPON SUNDAYS SEPTUA GESIMA AFTER FIRST DAY ASCENSION-WHITSUN TRINITY. NOTE, That in a Bissextile or Leap-year, the number of Sundays after Epiphany will be e 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 for the First Day of Lent: 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. GENERAL TABLES FOR FINDING THE DOMINICAL OR SUNDAY LETTER, AND THE PLACES OF THE GOLDEN NUMBERS IN THE CALENDAR. 10 find the Dominical or Sunday Letter for any given Year of our Lord, add to the Year its fourth part, omitting frac tions 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. NOTE, That in all Bissextile, or Leapyears, the Letter found as above will be the Sunday Letter from the First day of March inclusive, to the end of the year. |