A TABLE OF ALL THE FEASTS THAT ARE TO BE OBSERVED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND THROUGH THE YEAR. All Sundays in the Year. The Circumcision of Our LORD The Epiphany. The Conversion of S. Paul. The Purification of the Blessed S. Matthias the Apostle. The Annunciation of the Blessed S. Mark the Evangelist. S. Philip and S. James the The Ascension of Our LORD JESUS The Nativity of S. John Baptist. S. James the Apostle. S. Bartholomew the Apostle. S. Simon and S. Jude the Apos- All Saints. S. Andrew the Apostle. Monday and Tuesday in Easter-Week. Note.-EASTER-DAY (on which all the other moveable feasts 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 Saint Andrew, whether before or after. Note. That if any of these Feast-Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Fast-Day shall be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it. DAYS OF FASTING OR ABSTINENCE. I. The Forty Days of Lent. II. The Ember-Days at the Four day, Friday, and Saturday 1. The First Sunday in Lent. 2. The Feast of Pentecost. 3. September 14. 4. December 13. III. The Three Rogation-Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of Our LORD. IV. All the Fridays in the Year, except CHRISTMAS-DAY. Some of these being times of solemn fasting and abstinence, some of holy festivity and joy, both fit to be spent in such sacred exercises, without other avocations. (Bp. Cosin.) |