T TABLES and RULES for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts; together with tlie Days of Fasting and Abstinence through tfie whole Year. RULES, to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-Days begin. 'h" 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 happens 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. A TABLE OF FEASTS, to be observed in this Church, throughout the Year. St. Bartholomew the A1mstle. St. Matthew the Apostle. St. Michael and All Angels. St. Luke the Evangelist. St. Simon and St. Jude, A Apostles. All Saints. St. Andrew the Apostle. St. Thomas the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. Week. IV Sundays in the Year. The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. CHRIST. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist. A TABLE OF FASTS. Asn-Wednesday. Good-Friday. Other Days of Fasting; on which t%e Church requires such a Measure of AbsL nenct\ as is more especially suited to cxtraordinury Acts and Exercises of Devotion. 1st. The Season of Lent. at The Emher-Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday. Friday, ami Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14. and Decemher 13. 3d. The three Rogation Days, letting the Monday, Tuesday, and Weihiesday befcire Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lend'. 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 law appointed by the civil authority, then such dav) shall be observed as n day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Bless ings of his merciful Providence. |