T 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

ASTER-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

All Sundays in the year.

St. Bartholomew the Apostle.

The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS St. Matthew the Apostle.

CHRIST

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 3 our Lord JESUS
CHRIST

St. Barnabas

Th Nativity of St. John the Baptist.
St. Peter the Apostle.

St. James the Apostle.

St Michael and All Angels.
St Luke the Evangelist.

St. Simon and St. Jude, the Apostles.
All Samts

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-Weck.
Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-Week.

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. Forty Days of Lent.

2d. 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.

A Table to find Easter-Day, from the present Time, till the Year 1899 inclusive.
Golden Day of the
Month

5

6

Num.

Sunday
Letter.

14 March 21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

13 April 1

2

3

4

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8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

HIS Table contains so much of the Cal

Tendar 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 schal 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 Raster-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 I to the year of our Lord, and then divide by 19. the remainder. if any, is the Golden Number, but it nothing remain. then 19 is the Golden Nunber

To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter, according to the Calendar, until the year 1899 inclusive, add to the year of our Lord" its fourth part. omitting 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 the small annexed Table,; is the Sunday Letter

3

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 intercalated day exclusive, to the end of the year.

Another TABLE to find Easter, till the Year 1899, inclusive. |

SUNDAY LETTERS.

To make use of the preceding TABLE, find the Sunday

Letter for the Year in the uppermost Line, and the Golden
Number, or Prime, in the colunin of Golden Numbers,
and against the Prime, in the same Line, under the Sunday
Letter, you have the Day of the Month on which Easter
falleth that Year. But,

Vote. That the Name of the Month is set on the left
band, or just with the Figure, and followeth not as in other
Tables, by de ent, but collaterally.

ITABLE of the Days o

Time of two Cycles of the Moon.

which Easter will fall for thirty-eight Years, being the

A TABLE of the Moveable Feasts, 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 inust, 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.

A TABLE to find Easter-Day, from the Year 1900, to HE Golden Numbers

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 annexed Table, which contains so much of the Calendar then to be used, as is necessary for finding the Paschal Full Moons, and the Feast of Easter, from the year 1900, to the year 2199, inclusive. This Table is to be made juse of, in all respects, as the first Table, before inserted, for finding Easter, till the year 1899.

For finding the Dominical or Sunday Letter, and the Places of the Golden Num

TABLE I.

bers in the Calendar.

1600 1700

1800

2500 2600

2700 2800

3500
3600

5300 5400

6300
6400

7300 7400

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 3700 Number, which, in Table 1.) standeth at the Top of the Column wherein the Number of 4500 4600 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 Let6500 ter which standeth under that Number at the Top of the Table, is the Sunday Letter.

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