A TABLE OF FASTS.

Good Friday.

Ash Wednesday.

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.

L. The Forty Days of Lent.

II. The Ember-days at the Four Seasons,

being the Wednes

day, Friday, and Saturday after

The First Sunday in Lent,
The Feast of Pentecost,

September 14, and December 18.

III. The three Rogation-days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord.

IV. 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 of served as a Day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Blessings of his merciful Providence.

HE Numbers prefixed to the several Days, in the foregoing Calendar, between the twenty-first 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 Easterday 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 twentieth Day of March and the nineteenth 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.

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.

ACCORDING TO THE SEVERAL DAYS THAT EASTER

CAN POSSIBLY FALL UPON.

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 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.