FOR THE MOVEABLE AND IMMOVEABLE FEASTS;

1OGETHER 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.

Advent Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether

before or after.

A TABLE OF FEASTS,

TO BE OBSERVED IN THIS CHURCH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

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.

I. The Forty Days of Lent.

II. The Ember-Days at the Four Seasons, (The First Sunday in Lent.

being the

The Feast of Pentecost.

Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after September 14, and December 13. 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 observed as a Day of Thanks giving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Blessings of his merciful Providence.

A TABLE TO FIND EASTER-DAY,

FROM THE PRESENT TIME TILL THE YEAR 1899, INCLUSIVE.

THIS Table contains so much of the Calen

dar 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 Ful Moon; then look at the third column for the Sunday Letter, next after the day of the Full Moo; and the day of he 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.

0 A
IG
2 F
3 E

To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter, ac cording to the Calendar, until the year 1899, inclusive, add to the year of our Lord its fourth part, omnitting fractions, 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 standing against that number in he small annexed Table is the Sunday Letter.

4

D

5

C

6 B

Note, That in all Bissextile or Leap Years, the Letter found as above will be the Sunday Letter from the inte calated day exclusive, to the end of the year.

FOR THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS, BEING THE TIME OF TWO CYCLES OF THE MOON.

A TABLE OF THE MOVEABLE FEASTS,

ACCORDING TO THE SEVERAL DAYS THAT EASTER CAN POSSIBLY

Epiphany
And,

11 27

30

24

20

6

2

12 27

Dec.

25

April

10

11

12

13

14

15

Note, That in a Bissextile or Leap-Year, the number of Sundays after

by the Table for Septuagesima Sunday, and for the first day of Lent: will be the same as if Easter-Day had fallen one day later than it really does. for the same reason, one day must, in every Leap-Year, be added to the day of the 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 righ' day. given

month

FROM THE YEAR 1900 TO THE YEAR 2199, INCLUSIVE.

THE Golden Numbers in the fore-
going 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 Ecclesiasti-
cal 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 annexed
Table, which contains so much of
the Calendar then to be used, as is
necessary for finding the Paschu
Full Moons, and the Feast of Eas
ter, 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.

GENERAL TABLES

FOR FINDING THE DOMINICAL OR SUNDAY LETTER,

AND THE PLACES OF THE GOLDEN NUMBERS IN THE

To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter for any given year of our Lord, add to the year its fourth part, omitting fractions, and als 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.