215/4 Non. 10 231 7 e 17 Id. 29 8 9 8 5 Id. 2 30 12 13 4011 Pet. I 2 151 II Leflon. 2 Leífon. i Lelion. Leffon f Calendze [fa. 14 Aēts 2 Isa. 15 Heb. 7 8 8 A 3 Non. 18 4 19 9 4b Prid. Non 20, 21 5 22 5 c Nonze 6 241 6 d 8 Id. Nicholas, Bp.* 257tov.30 26 12 277, 30 28 13 8 f 16 Id. Conception of 30. James ] B.Vir. Mary.t 31 9 32 ICA 4 Id. 331 34 2 11b 3 351121c Prid. Id. 37 5 13 d Idus. Lucy, V. &M. 391 14 e 19 Cal. Jan. 41 42 15 f 18 Cal. 43 44 3 16 O Sapientia 451 4 17 A 16 Cal. 474 17 5 Sb 15 49 502 Pet. 1 119 C14 Cal. 51 52 - Faft. 541 3 21 e 12 Cal. St. Thomas, Ap. 21 Johni [& Mart. 55 22 2 23 5 10 Cal. 3 9 Cal. Fait.' 24 60! 231 b 8 Cal. Christmas-Day. 12ofc 7 Cal. St. Stephen, 11. 2-1 dl 6 Cal. St. John, A.&E.! 281 e 5 5 611 20 62 2 John 30 g 3 Cal. 63 2--- 643 John 3,1 A Prid. Cal. Silvefter, Bp. g 17 Cal. 16 46 48 Nicholas, made bishop of Myra in Alia by Constantine the Great; and remarkable for his piety and generosity. One instance, however, is upon record, of his breach of charity, in giving Arius a box on the ear, in a theological controversy. + Conception of the Virgin Mary. This feast was instituted by Anfelm archbishop of Canterbury, in William the Conqueror's reign, in consequence of a vow made for the safety of William's fleet in a storm, It gave occasion to a greatly-agitated quettion amongst the Romanists, the immaculate conception, which was firit started by Peter Lombard, 1160. 1 Lucy. A Virgin of Syracuse, who lived in the beginning of the fourth century. Having refused the addresses of a noble Sicilian, he accused her to Pafchafius, the heathen judge, of profefling Chriftianity; in confequence of which she was first tortured, and then executed. O Sapientia. This day is so called from the commencement of an anchem, in the Latin service, which used to be sung in honour of Christ's advent, from this day to Christmas eve, Silvester, bishop of Rome, succeeded Miltiades in that dignity, A.D. 314. He died A.D. 334; and obtained a place in the Calendar in confequence of his being the author of several rites and ceremonies in the komill church. D or the Moveab'e and Immoveable FEASTS; together with the Days of FASTING or ABSTINENCE throughout the Year. Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-Days begin. E is after the Full Moon which happens upon or next after the Twentytirst Day of March; and if the Full Moon happen upon a Sunday, Ealar-Day is the Sunday after. Advent-Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew, whether before or after. Septuagefima Nine Eight Weeks before EASTER. Seven Six Rogatim-Sunday Five Weeks Ascension-day Forty Days after EASTER. Whitsunday Seven Weeks Trinity-Sunday Eight Weeks A Table of all the Feasts that are to be observed in the Church of ENGLAND througłout the Year. ALL SUNDAYS IN THE YEAR. The Days of the Feasts of The Circumcision of our Lord St. Peter the Apostle. St. James the Apostle. St. Bartholomew the Apostle. St. Matthew the Apostle. St. Olichael and all Angels. St. Luke the Evangelist. St. Siinon and St. Jude the Apoftles. All Saints. St. Andrew the Apostle. St. Thomas the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord. St. Stephen the Martyr. St. John the Evangelift. The Holy Innocents. The Days of the Feasts of Esiter-day is the Sunday after) A great schism arose, in the early ages of Christianity, between the battern and Weiter churches, respecting the day on which Easter thould be celebrated; the former keeping this tealt on the day whereon the Jews celebrated the Paftover, viz. upon the 14th of their first month Nizan, (which month began at the new 12001 next to the Verna Equinox, on whatever day of the week the 14th might happe: otal; and the laiter keeping their Easter on the Sunday following the Jewith Passover The violence of the oppofite parties obliged Conitantine at length to interfere, who procure. i canon to be passed in the ge eral council of Nice, to this effect :-“That every where the Of the VIGILS, FASTS, and DAYS of ABSTINENCE, to be observed in the Year. [ The Nativity of our Lord. Pentecost. St. Matinias. St. Icha Baptif. St. Peter. St. Thonas. (All Saints. Note, That if any of these Feast-days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Fast-day thall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it. Days of Fasting or Alftinence. 1. The Forty Days of Lent. II . The Ember-Days at the Four The Feast of Pentecost. The firft Sunday in Lent. Seasons being the Wednesday, September 14. Friday, and Saturday, after December 13. III. The Three Rogation-Days, bring the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy-Thursday, or the Afcention of our Lord. iv. All the Fridays in the Year, except Christmas-Day. Certain Solemn Days for which particular Services are appointed. L. The Fifth Day of November, || III. The Twenty-ninth Day of being the Day kept in memory May, being the Day kept in meof the Papifts Conspiracy. mory of the Birth and Return of King Charles II. II. The Thirtieth Day of Ya nuary, being the Day kept in IV. The Twenty-fifth Day of Ocmemory of the Martyrdom of tober, being the Day on which King Charles I. his Majesty began his happyreign. great feast of Eafter should be observed on one and the same day; and that, not on the day the Jewish Passover, but, as had been generally observed, upon the Sunday afterwards.' Explanatory of this general canon, the following rules were establithed : ift. That the zist day of March thall be accounted the Vernal Equinox. 1926: That the full moon happening upon or next after the 211t day of March Thall be taken for the full moon of Nizan. 34. That the Lord's-Day next following that full moon be Eafter-day. 4th. But if the full moon happen upon a Sunday, Eatter-day thall be the Sunday after.” A TABLE to find EASTER-DAY from the present Time, till the Year 1899 inclusive, according to the foregoing Calendar. olunda Di Sunary Aumb. Month, Letter 'HIS Table contains so much of the Calendar as с C D find which, look for the Golden Number of the year E in the first column of the Table, against which F itands the day of the Pafchal Full Moon; then look G in the third column for the Sunday-Letter, next A after the day of the Full Moon, and the day of the B month itanding against that Sunday-Letter is Eater Day. If the Full Moon happen upon a Sunday, D then (according to the first rule) the next Sunday E after is Eajter-Day. F To find the Golden Number, or Prime, add one B to the year of our Lord, and then divide by 19; the с remainder, if any, is the Golden Number; but if no. D thing remaineth, then 19 is the Golden Number. 16 5 F To find the Dominical or Sunday-Letter, accord- For the next Century, that is, from the year 1800 с till the year 1899 inclusive, add to the current year D only its fourth part, and then divide by 7, and proE cecd as in the last rule. [Note, That in all Biffextile or Leap-Years, the Letter A found as above will be the Sunday-Letter from the inB tercalated day exclusive, to the end of the year. ] с 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 201 21 22 23 24 25 17 6 Golden Number] We have seen in the preceding note, that in order to settle Easterday, it was neceffaty to determine the time of the new and full moons. This was impertectly Jone at the time of establishing the Canons tor regulating Easter; and accordingly the Fathers of the succeeding century directed that the new and full moons should be found out hy the Cycle of the Moon, or a revolution of moons consisting of nineteen years. This cyce, from its utility in setting the moon's age, was called the Golden Number; and tor fome time was written in Calendars in letters of gold. Meton, an Athenian geoma. Strician tirit observed, that at the end of nineteen years the moon returns so as to have her changes on the same day of the Solar year and month whereon they happened nine teen years before ; and hence this Lunar computation obtained the name of the Metonin Cycle. But still there was detect in it; tor, though at the end of every nineteen years the moon changes on the very fame day of the Solar months, on which it changed nineteen years before ; yet the fact is, what the change occurs nearly an hour and a halt tooner every lucceeding nineteen years than in the preceding Cycle. Hence in the course of years an Jalteration of leveral days had gradually taken place in the time of holding Easter; an error which Pope Gregory Xillth corrected in 1582, when he reformed the Calendar, and brought back the Vernal Equinox to the 21st of March. This retormation was adopted in the English Calendar in 1752, (and called changing style) by the suppression of 11 days between the 3d and 14th of Sept.; and bringing by these means the succeeding Vernal Equinox |