A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR DECEMBER,

A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR NOVEMBER.

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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. 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

A TABLE OF FEASTS,

To be observed in this Church, throughout the Year.

St. Bartholomew the Apostle.

All Sundays in the year.
The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS St. Matthew the Apostle.

St Michael and All Angels.

St Luke the Evangelist.

St. Simon and St. Jude, the Apostles.

All Samts

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-Werk.

Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-Week.

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

1st. Forty Days of Lent.

2d. The Ember-Days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13.

3d. The three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord.

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 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 Biessings of his merciful Providence.

A Table to find Easter-Day, from the present Time, till the Year 1899 inclusive.

HIS 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 schal 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 I 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 Goiden Number

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its fourth part, omitting fractions,
Divide the sum by 7. and if there be

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no remainder, then A is the Sunday 3 E

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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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Another TABLE to find Easter, till the Year 1899, inclusive.

find the Sunday

with the Figure, and followeth not as in other Vote, That the Name of the Month is set on the left Tables, by de ent, but collaterally. band, or just

To make use of the preceding
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,

A TABLE of the Days on which Easter will fall for thirty-eight Years, being the Time of two Cycles of the Moon.

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A TABLE of the Moveable Feasts, according to the several Days that Easter can

possibly fall upon.

Easter Sun. af. Septu. First D. Ascen. Whit. Sun Advent

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Epiphany

And,

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. for the same reason, one Day inust, 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.

A TABLE to find Easter-Day, from the Year 1900, to THE Golden Numbers the Year 2199, inclusive.

in the foregoing Calendar will point out the Day of Sund. days of the Paschal Full Moons, till the Year of our the Mo. Letter Lord 1900; at which time,

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in order that the Ecclesiastical Full Moons may falا nearly on the same days with the real Full Moons, the Golden Numbers must be removed to different days of the Calendar, as ist Idone in the annexed Table, which contains so much of the Calendar then to be used, as is necessary for C 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 juse of, in all respects, as the first Table, before inserted, for finding Easter, till the year 1899.

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GENERAL TABLES

For finding the Dominical or Sunday Letter, and the Places of the Golden Num

NO find the Dominical or

given Year of our Lord, add to

2800 the Year its fourth Part, omitting Fractions, and also the 3600 3700 Number, which, in Table 1. standeth at the Top of the Column wherein the Number of 4500 4600 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 Let6500 ter which standeth under that Number at the Top of the Table, is the Sunday Letter.

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