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The feasts kept in the Christian Church are called movable and immovable, according as they fall, always on the same day in the calendar in each year, as the saints' days; or depend on other circumstances, as Easter. and the feasts calculated from Easter. The Book of Common Prayer contains several tables for calculating Easter, and the following rules to know when the movable feasts and holy-days begin: Easter 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 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.
Septuagesima Nine Weeks
Sexagesima Sunday Eight Weeks before
Quinlquagesimna is Seven Weeks Easter.
Quadragesima Six Weeks
Roogation Sunday Five Weeks
Ascension Day is Forty Days after
Whit Sunday Seven Weeks Easter.
Trinity Sunday Eight Weeks
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