The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments

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.

FASTER-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.

TO BE OBSERVED IN THIS CHURCH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

All Sundays in the Year.

St. James the Apostle.

The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS St. Bartholomew 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 Vir

gin.

St. Mark the Evangelist.

St. Philip and St. James the Apostles.

The Ascension of our Lord JESUS

CHRIST.

St. Barnabas the Apostle.

The Nativity of St. John the Baptist.

St. Peter the Apostle.

St. Matthew the Apostle.

St. Michael and all Angels.

St. Luke the Evangelist.

St. Simon and St. Jude the Apostles.

All Saints.

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-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 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.
The Feast of Pentecost

being the

Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after September 14, and December 13.

III. The three Rogation-Days, being the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday be

fore 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.

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.

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.

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AGFEDOB

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.

II. April 9 III. Mar. 26.

3.... 4.. 5

27. 28. 29

IV. April 16

17 .... 11 .. 12

V. April 2....

3.... 4. 5

VI. April 23
VII. April 9....

24.... 25.. 19 .... 20 21

10 ... 11. 12 .... 13 .. .... 14
3 Mar. 28 . 29 .... 30

10 make use of the preceding Table, find the Sunday Let15 ter for the Year in the 8 uppermost line, and the Golden Number, or Prime, in the co15 lumn of Golden Num6 Mar, 31 April 1 bers, and against the 22 Prime, in the same 8 line, under the Sun31 April 1 day Letter, you have 22 the day day of the month 8 on which Easter fall7... eth that year. But, 25 Note, That the name 14.... 15 of the Month is set 8 on the left hand, or 25 just with the figure,

VIII. April 2

IX. April 16 ....

X. April 9.. XI. Mar. 26.

17.... 18 . 19 .... 20
10.... 11..5...
27. 28. 29
17.... 18 . 19 .... 13

31..

15 and followeth not as

XII. April 16

XIII. April 2....

3.... 4..5...

XIV. Mar. 26

27.... 28.. 22.... 23

.... 24

XV. April 16 ....

10....11.. 12 .... 13

XVL. April 2

3.... 4.. 5 Mar. 30

XVII. April 23...

18.. 19

XVIII. April 9

10 .... 11 .. 12 ..

XIX. April 2 Mar.27 28.. 29

31 April 1

31 April 1 in other Tables, by 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

Ascen- Whit Sundays Advent

sionDay.

after

sunday. Trinity.

Sunday.

Jan. 18 Feb. 4 Apr. 30 May 10 27 Nov. 29

....

5 May 1 11 27
2
12 27
3.... 13 27
4
14 27

Dec. 1

....

5.... 15 26 Nov.

Dec. 1

20 30 123 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 27 28 29 30 1237782030 123 27 28 29 30 1237270

after

Epiphany

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

by the Table, for Septuagesima Sunday, and for the first

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.

FROM THE YEAR 1900 TO THE YEAR 2199, INCLUSIVE.

Sunday THE Golden Numbers in

ABCDEFG

12 D

13 E

14 F

15 G

29 D

17 B

31 F

CDEFGABO

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 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.

1600 1700 1800

1900

2300

2100 2200

2500 2600

2000

2400

3100

3500

2900 3000

3300 3400

3200

3600

3900

4300

3800

4100 4200

4500 4600

4000

4400

4700

5100

5500

4900 5000

5300 5400

4800

5200

5600

5900

6300

5700 5800

6100 6200

6500

6000

6400

2800

given year of our Lord, add to the year its fourth part, 2700 omitting fractions, and also the number, which, in Table I., standeth at the top of the 3700 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

6700

7100

6600

6900 7000

7300 7400 Letter.

6800

7200

7500

7900

8300

7700 7800

8100 8200

7600

8000

8400

8500 &c.

Years of our Lord.

7100

7200

7700 26

6600 22
6700

710 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 6400 20 next hundredth year following, look in 6500 21 the second column of Table II. for the 23 given year, consisting of entire hun6800 22 dreds; and note the number or cipher 23 which stands against it in the third 24 column; then in Table III. look for the 24 same number in the column under any 24 given Golden Number, which, when you 7300 25 have found, guide your eye sideways to 7400 25 the left hand, and in the first column 7500 26 you will find the month and the day to 7600 26 which that Golden Number ought to be

6900

7000

7800 27 prefixed in the Calendar, during that 7900

The letter B, prefixed to certain hun

28 dredth years in Table II., denotes those 8200 29 years which are still to be accounted 29 Bissextile or Leap Years in the new Ca29 lendar; whereas all the other hundredth O years are to be accounted only common years.