¶ 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. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, Septuagesima 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. Nine Eight Quinquagesima Sunday is Seven Weeks before Quadragesima Six Rogation-Sunday Five Weeks Ascension-Day is Forty Days After Easter. Whitsunday Trinity-Sunday Seven Weeks A TABLE OF FEASTS, to be observed in this Church throughout 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. A TABLE to find Easter-Day, from the present Time till the Year 1899, inclusive. THIS Table contains so much of the Calendar 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 EasterDay. If the Full Moon happen upon a Sunday, then (according to the first rule) the next Sunday after is EasterDay. 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. IG 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. 2 F 4 D 5 C 6 R 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. To make use of the preceding Table, find the Sunday Letter for the Year in the uppermost line, and the Golden No. or Prime, in the column of Golden Nos., 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. A TABLE of the Days on which Easter will fall for thirtyeight 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. |