 RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS 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,...  Festivals, Games, and Amusements - Page 121by Horace Smith - 1833 - 355 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Priest - 1884 - 616 pages
...know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy -days begin. TOASTER -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.... | |
 | Caroline Cameron Acland, C. C. G. - Church history - 1884 - 332 pages
...Great Forty Days." c. Easter is a " moveable Feast ;" ie, it falls on different days, Easter Day being the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the 2ist of March. VII. The Ascension. Celebrating CHRIST'S Ascension into Heaven ; forty days after Easter.... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - Cornwall (England : County) - 1886 - 388 pages
...observance. A simple rule on the subject is given in the Prayer Book, namely : " Easter Day is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the 2ist day of March; and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after." It... | |
 | 1886 - 590 pages
...after a controversy more animated than gracious decided it, and now through all Christendom in some way the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21st is filled with Easter rejoicing. The royal court of the Sabbaths is made up of fifty-two.... | |
 | Encyclopedias - 1888 - 716 pages
...festival of the Christian church observed in commemoration of our Saviour's resurrection. Easter is the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the 21st of March; and if this happens upon a Sunday, Easter-day is the Sunday after. Ealsterxlay, -da. The... | |
 | St. Paul's Church. Chicago - 1891 - 152 pages
...RULES. TO KNOW WHEN THE 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 happen upon a Sunday, Easter-day is the Sunday after.... | |
 | Albert Ross Parsons - Astrology - 1893 - 472 pages
...thirty full moons, the Church rightly ordains that Easter Day, the festival of resurrection, " shall be the first Sun-Day after the Full Moon which happens upon or next after the 21st of March." We are, however, expressly informed, that the date of Easter Sunday is not determined in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1893 - 528 pages
...and finally settled for tue whole church, by adopting the rule which makes Easter day to be always the first Sunday after the full moon, which happens upon, or next after, March 21, and If the full moon happens on Sunday Easter day Is the Sunday alter ; so that, by this... | |
 | Universalists - 1894 - 218 pages
...Last Supper.) GOOD FRIDAY. The Friday next preceding Easter. (The Crucifixion.) EASTER DAY 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.... | |
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