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. 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 TO BE OBSERVED IN THIS CHURCH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. All Sundays in the Year. St. Bartholomew the Apostle. The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS | St. Matthew the Apostle. St. Michael and all Angels. St. Simon and St. Jude the Apostles. St. Andrew the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord JESUS St. Stephen the Martyr. Monday and Tuesday in Easter-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 SUITED TO EXTRAORDINARY ACTS AND EXERCISES OF DEVOTION. I. The Forty Days of Lent. II. The Ember-Days at the Four Seasons, BEING THE (The First Sunday in Lent. Feast 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 Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Blessings of his merciful Providence. XVI 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 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. 0|A 1 G 2 F 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. GOLDEN ANOTHER TABLE TO FIND EASTER, TILL THE YEAR 1899, INCLUSIVE. SUNDAY LETTERS. 6 Mar. 31 April 1 VII. April 9 -10 VIII. April 2 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 column 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, NOTE, That the name of the Month is set on the left hand, or just with the figure, and followeth not as in other Tables, by descent, but collaterally. 3 A TABLE OF THE DAYS ON WHICH EASTER WILL FALL 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 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. xviii : A TABLE TO FIND EASTER-DAY, FROM THE YEAR 1900 TO THE YEAR 2199, INCLUSIVE. GOLDEN DAYS OF THE SUNDAY THE Golden Numbers LETTER. GOLDEN DAYS OF THE SUNDAY 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 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. 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. TABLE III. 3 To find the month and days of the month 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 follow20 ing, look in the second column of 21 Table II. for the given year, con22 sisting of entire hundreds; and 23 note the number or cipher which 22 stands against it in the third col23 umn; then in Table III. look for 24 the same number in the column 24 under any given Golden Number, 24 which, when you have found, 25 guide your eye sideways to the 25 left hand, and in the first column 26 you will find the month and the 26 day to which that Golden Num26, ber ought to be prefixed in the 27 Calendar, during that period of 28 one hundred years. 27 The letter B, prefixed to certain 28 hundredth years in Table II., de29 notes those years which are still 29 to be accounted Bissextile or 29 Leap Years in the new Calendar; O whereas all the other hundredth years are to be accounted only common years. THE GOLDEN NUMBERS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 819 01122 31425 617 28 920 11223 4 15 26 13 24 51627 819 01122 213 24 516 27 31425 6 17 28 11223 41526 7 18 29 213 24 51627 819 0 31425 61728 9 20 1 11223 415 26 7 18 29 1021 2 21324 51627 819 01122 3 31425 61728 920 11223 4 415 26 7 18 29 1021 21324 1425 6 17 28 920 31425 6 415 26 7 51627 8 17 28 9 18 29 10 10 11 12 13 14 28 9 20 112 23 415 26 7 18 29 1021 21324 516 213 24 5 16 27 819 01122 31425 617 011 22 314 25 617 28 920 11223 415 26 718 112 23 4 15 26 7 18 29 1021 21324 5 16 27 8 19 213 24 5 16 27 819 01122 31425 61728 920 314 25 617 28 9 20 11223 41526 7 18 29 1021 415 26 7 18 29 1021 21324 51627 19 01122 5 16 27 8 19 01122 31425 617 28 20 11223 71829 1021 213 24 61728 9 20 11223 41526 718 29 1021 21324 51627 819 01122 31425 XX |