Tables and Rules for the
Movable and Immovable Feasts

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.

All Sundays in the Year
The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ
The Epiphany
The Convestion 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, Apostles
The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ
St. Barnabas the Apostle
The Nativity of St. John Baptist
St. Peter the Apostle
St. James the Apostle
The Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ

St. Bartholomew the Apostle
St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
St. Michael and all Angels
St. Luke the Evangelist
St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles
All Saints
St. Andrew the Apostle
St. Thomas the Apostle
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ
St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
St. John. Apostle and Evangelist
The Holy Innocents
Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week
Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun Week

 

A TABLE OF FASTS

Ash Wednesday           Good Friday

Other days of Fasting, on which the Church requires such a measure of Abstinence as is more especially suite to Extraordinary Acts and Exercises of Devotion.
          I. The Forty Days of Lent.
        II. The Ember Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after
            the First Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 13, and December 13.
      III. All the Fridays in the Year, except Christmas Day, and The Epiphany,
            or any Friday which may intervene between these feasts.

Days of Solemn Supplication.

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

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TABLES OF PRECEDENCE.

The Holy Days following have precedence over any other Sunday or Holy Day:

The Sundays in Advent
Christmas Day
The Epiphany
Septuagesima Sunday
Sexagesima Sunday
Quinquagesima Sunday
Ash Wednesday

The Sundays in Lent
All the days of Holy Week
Easter Day; and the seven following days
Rogation Sunday
The Ascension Day; and the
    Sunday after Ascension Day
Whitsunday; and the six following days
Trinity Sunday

If any other Holy Day fall on any day noted in the preceding Table, the observance
of such Holy Day shall be transferred to the first convenient open day.

The following Holy Days have precedence of days not noted in the foregoing Table:

St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
The Holy Innocents
The Circumcision of Christ
The Conversion of St. Paul
The Purification of St. Mary the Virgin

St. John Baptist
All Feasts of Apostles or Evangelists
The Transfiguration of Christ
St. Michael and all Angels
All Saints

On these Holy Days the Collect, Epistle and Gospel for the Feast shall be used; but
on Sundays the Collect for the Feast shall be followed by the Collect for the Sunday.

THE 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 Easter Day for that Year. All which holds until the Year of our Lord 2199 inclusive; after which Year, the places of these GoIden Numbers will need 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.

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.

TO find the Dominical 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.

NOTE, That in all-Bissextile or Leap-years, the Letter found as above will be the Sunday Letter from the first Day of March inclusive, to the End of the Year.

To find the Days to which the Golden Numbers ought to be prefixed in the Calendar in any given Year of our Lord, consisting of entire Hundred Years, and in all the intermediate Years betwixt that and the next Hundredth Year-following, look in the first column of this Table for the given Year, consisting of entire Hundreds; and against it, under each Golden Number, you will find the Day of the Month to which that Golden Number ought to be prefixed in the Calendar, during that period of One Hundred Years: and if the number of be Day be greater than 20, it is a Day of March; but if it be less than 20, it is a Day of April. The asterisk, affixed to certain Hundredth Years,denotets those Years which are stilI to be accounted Bissextile or Leap-years in the new Calendar; whereas all the other Hundredth Years are to be accounted only common Years.