TABLES and RULES 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. FASTER-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. Advent Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether before or after. Septuagesima Nine Sexagesima Quinquagesima Rogation Sunday Five Weeks Ascension-Day Whitsunday Seven Weeks Trinity Sunday Eight Weeks A TABLE OF FEASTS, to be observed in this Church throughout All Sundays in the Year. The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS St. Matthew the Apostle. CHRIST. The Epiphany. The Conversion of St. Paul. St. Simon and St. Jude, the Apostles. The Purification of the Blessed Virgin. All Saints. 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. St. Andrew the Apostle. St. Thomas the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord JESUS The Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week. CHRIST. St. Stephen the Martyr. St. John the Evangelist. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun Week. Good-Friday. A TABLE OF FASTS. Ash-Wedne day. Other 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 forty days of Lent. 2nd. The Ember-Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13. 3d. The Three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before 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 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. Letter. A TABLE to find Easter-Day, from the present Time, till the Year, Golden Day of the Sunday 1899, inclusive. Number. Month. 14 March 21 THIS Table contains so much of the Calendar as is necessary for the determining of Easter; to find which, look for the Golden Number of the year in the first column of the Table, 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. Another TABLE to find Easter, till the Year 1899, inclusive. SUNDAY LETTERS. TO make use of the preceding Table, FG find the Sunday Let 141 15 ter for the Year in the II. Ap. 9 III. Mar. 26 8 uppermost line, and 25 the Golden No. or 15 Prime, in the column 6 Mar. 31 Ap. 1 of Golden Nos. and 20 21 22 against the Prime in VII. Ap. 9 8 the same line, under VIII. Ap. 2 31 Ap. 1 the Sunday letter, you IX. Ap. 16 21 22 have the day of the X. Ap. 9 8 Month on which Eas XI. Mar. 26 25 ter falleth that Year. 15 But, 8 Note, That the name 25 of the Month is set on 15 the Left hand, or just 31 Ap. 1 with the Figure, and XVII. Ap. 23 21 XVIII. AP. 9 22 followeth not as in 8 other Tables, by des XIX. Ap. 2 Mar. 27 31 Ap. 1. cent, but collaterally. A TABLE to find Easter-Day, from the year 1900, Golden Day of the Sunday||Golden Day of the Sunday Num. Month. Letter. THE Golden Num bers in the foregoing Calendar, will point out the days of the Paschal Full Moons, till the year of our Lord 1900; at which time, in order that the Ecclesiastical Full Moons may fall nearly on the same days with the real Full Moons, the Golden Numbers must be removed to different days of the Calendar. as is done in the an nexed Table, which contains so much of the Calendar then to be used, as is necessary for finding the Paschal 1900, to the Year 2199, Full Moons, and the Feast of Easter, from the year 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. GENERAL TABLES for finding the Dominical or Sunday Letter, and the Places of the Golden Numbers in the Calendar 2 31 2 31 6500 4200 12 6600 6700 6900 2200 2300 34 4600 13 7000 4 4700 14 7100 B 2400 3 B 4800 14 B 7200 2500 4 2600 5 5000 15 7400 7500 2 Years of 0 B 4000 10 B 6400 B 2000 2 B 4400 12 B 6800 3 Month to which the Golden Numbers ought to be prefixed in the Calendar in any given year of our Lord, consisting of entire hundred 20 years, and in all the intermediate 21 years betwixt that and the next hun22 dredth year following, look in the se23 cond column of Table II. for the giv22 en year, consisting of entire hun23 dreds; and note the number or cy24 pher which stands against it in the 24 third column; then in Table III. look 24 for the same number in the column 25 under any given Golden Number, 25 which when you have found, guide 26 your eye sideways to the left hand, 26 and in the first column you will find 26 the month and the day to which that 27 Golden Number ought to be pre7900 28 fixed in the Calendar, during that 27 period of one hundred years. 8100 28 The Letter B prefixed to certain 29 hundredth years in Table II. denotes 29 those years which are still to be ac29 counted Bissextile or Leap Years in 0 the new Calendar; whereas all the other hundredth years are to be accounted only common years. B 2800 5 B 5200 15 B 7600 7 B 5600 17 B 8000 8 B 6000 19 B 8400 TABLE III. THE GOLDEN NUMBERS. 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19 3 14 25 617|28| 9|20| 1|12|23| 4| 15|26 22 D 920 112 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 10 21 2 13 24 5 16 27 23 E 10 21 2 13 24 5 16 27 8 19 0 11 22 3 14 25 6 17 28 11 22 3 14 25 617 28 920 112 23 415 26 7 18 29 1223 415 26 7 18 29 10 21 213 24 5 15 27 8 190 A 13 24 5 16 27 14 25 6 17 28 9 20 1 12 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 10 21 2 15 26 7 18 29 10 21 2 13 24 5 16 27 8 19 0 11 22 16 27 8 19 0 11 22 3 14 25 6 17 28 9 20 112 23 1728920 112 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 10 21 213 24 18 29 10 21 213 24 5 16 27 8 19 0 1122 314/25 19 0 11 22 3 14 25 6 17 28 9 20 1 12 23 4 15 26 20 1 12 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 10 21 2 13 24 516 27 21 2 13 24 5 16 27 8 19 0 11 22 3 14 25 6 17 28 22 314 25 61728 920 11223 415 26 7 18 291 23 415 26 718 29/10 21 213 24 5 16 27 819 01 24 5 16 27 8 19 0 11 22 3 14 25 6 17 28 9 20 12 25 6 17 28 9 20 1 12 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 10 21 3 26 718 29 10 21 2 13 24 5 16 27 819 011 22 A 27 819 01122 314 25 6 17 28 920 112234 7|18|29|10|21| 2|13|24| 5|16|27| 8|19|0|11|22| 3|14|25 |