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TABLES AND RULES
FOR
THE MOVEABLE AND
IMMOVEABLE FEASTS
RULES
TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS
AND HOLY-DAYS BEGIN
Easter Day (on which the rest depend) is aiways 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, or the day of that Feast.
Septuagesima
Sunday is nine weeks before Easter.
Sexagesirna Sunday is eight weeks before Easter.
Quinquagesima Sunday is seven weeks before Easter.
Quadragesima Sunday is six weeks before Easter.
Rogation
Sunday is five weeks after Easter.
Ascension Day is forty days after Easter.
Whitsunday is seven weeks after Easter.
Trinity Sunday is eight weeks after Easter.
A TABLE OF ALL THE FEASTS
THAT
ARE TO BE OBSERVED IN THE SCOTTISH
CHURCH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
All Sundays
in the year.
Red Letter Days:
The day of the feasts of:
The Circumcision
of our Lord.
The Epiphany.
St. Kentigern or Mungo.
The Conversion of St. Paul.
The Purification of the Blessed Virgin.
St. Matthias the Apostle.
St. Patrick.
The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
St. Mark the Evangelist.
St. Philip and St. James the Apostles.
The Ascension of our Lord.
St. Columba.
St. Barnabas the Apostie.
The Nativity of St. John Baptist.
St. Peter the Apostle.
St. James the Apostle.
The Transfiguration of our Lord.
St. Bartholomew the Apostle.
St. Ninian.
St. Matthew the Apostle.
St. Michael and All Angels.
St. Luke the Evangelist.
St. Simon and St. Jude the Apostles.
All Saints.
St. Margaret of Scotland.
St. Andrew the Apostle.
St. Thomas the Apostle.
The Nativity of our Lord.
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 THE DAYS OF FASTING
OR ABSTINENCE
TO
BE OBSERVED IN THE YEAR
I.	The
	Vigils before the Nativity of our Lord, Easter Day, and Pentecost. Note
	that if Christmas Day fali upon a Monday, the Vigil shall be kept upon
	the Saturday next before it.
II.	The
	Forty Days of Lent.
III.
	The Ember Days at the four Seasons, being the Wed nesday, Friday, and
	Saturday after:
	1. The First Sunday in Lent.
	2. The Feast of Pentecost.
	3. September 14.
	4. The Third Sunday in Advent.
IV.	The
	three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before
	Holy Thursday or the Ascension of our Lord.
V.	All
	the Fridays in the year, except Christmas Day, the Epiphany, and the
	Fridays in the Octaves of Christrnas, Easter, and the Ascension of our
	Lord.
The
Greater Fasts are Ash Wednesday and Monday to Saturday before Easter.

A
TABLE TO REGULATE THE SERVICE WHEN
TWO FEASTS OR HOLY-DAYS FALL
UPON THE SAME DAY
When two Feasts or Holy-days fail upon the same day, then shall be said
the whole Service proper to the day named in the left-hand column of
the following Table; and the Service for the day in the right-hand column
shall be transferred, if therein directed.
First	St
Sunday in Advent	Andrew, transferred to Monday.
Fourth	St.
Sunday in Advent.	Thomas, transferred to Monday.
St.	First	If
Stephen, St. John Evanelist, Innocents’ Day, Circumcision.	Sunday after Christmas.	local circumstances make it desirable, the First Sunday after Christmas
		may take precedence of St. Stephen's, St. John's, and Innocents' Days.
The	Second
Epiphany.	Sunday after Christmas.
*St.	First	*
Kentigern.	Sunday after Epiphany.	The Collect of the Sunday shall follow that of the day.
*Conversion	Third
of St. Paul.	Sunday after Epi phany.
*Candlemas.	Fourth
	Sunday after Epiphany, Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesiina.
Septuagesima,	Conversion
Sexagesima.	of St. Paul, transerred to Monday.
Sexagesia,	St.
Quinquagesima, Ash Wednesday, Sundays in Lent.	Matthias, transferred to next day.
Sundays	St.
in Lent (except Palrn Sunday).	Patrick, Annunciation, transferred to Monday.
Palm	Annunciation,
Sunday to Easter Tuesday, inclusive.	St. Patrick, transferred to Tuesday after Low Sunday.
Easter	St.
Day and Octave.	Mark, St. Philip and St. James, transferred to Tuesday after Low Sunday.
St.	Second,
Mark, *St. Philip and St. Jarnes.	Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sundays after Easter.
Ascension	St.
Day.	Philip and St. James, transferred to Friday.
Whitsunday	St.	§
to Trinity Sunday.	Barnabas, St. Columba, transferred to Tuesday after Trinity Sunday.	That is, those days which are included in the Table of all the Feasts
		that are to be observed.
*Holy-days	Sundays
from Trinity Sunday to St. Margaret of Scotiand inclusive.§	after Trinity.
On Great Festivals, that is, on Christmas Day, Epiphany, Easter Day,
Ascension Day, Whitsunday, and Trinity Sun day, no other Collect shall
be used except the Collect of the day.
If a Holy-day fall on, or be transferred to, a Monday,
Evensong on Sunday is the first Evensong of the Feast, the Collect of
the Sunday following that of the Feast. If a Holy day fall on a Saturday,
Evensong on Saturday is the second Evensong of the Feast, the Sunday
Collect being added; except the Sunday be Advent Sunday or the Fifth
or Sixth Sunday in Lent, when Evensong on Saturday is the first Evensong
of the Sunday, the Collect of the Feast fohiowing that of the Sunday.
When St. Matthias’s Day is observed on the day after Ash
Wednesday, Evensong on Wednesday is that of Ash Wednesday, the Collect
of St. Matthias’s Day following that of Ash Wednesday.
When May 1 is the Eve of Ascension Day, Evensong on Wednesday
is the first Evensong of the Ascension.
When St. Philip and St. James’s Day is observed on the
day after Ascension Day, Evensong on Thursday shah be that of the Ascension.
If both St. Columba’s and St. Barnabas’s Pays fall in Whitsun
Week, the Service for St. Columba’s Day shall be transferred to the
Tuesday, and that for St. Barnabas’s Day to the Wednesday, after Trinity
Sunday.

At this point "A Table of the Moveable Feasts, for Fifty Years" is inserted

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