Explanation Of The Epistles And Gospels For The Sundays Holydays And Festivals Throughout The Ecclesiastical Year To Which Are Added The Lives Of Many Saints

Excerpt from Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, Holidays and Festivals Throughout the Ecclesiastical Year: To Which Are Added Instructions on Christian Faith and Morals, Explanations of Different Ceremonies and Practices of the Church, and the Lives of Many Saints The moveable feasts, that is, those that do not come upon the same day every year, are regulated according to Easter, and may be seen ill the following table, that when we know on which ay of the month Easter comes, we can easily know all the other moveable feasts, if we only' attend to the dominical letter, which is given in the second column and indicates the Sunday of the year opposite to which it stands. If in this table after the date cf the years from 1870 till 1895 two letters stand beside each other, then that year is a leap-year, and the first letter shows the Sunday until the 25th February, the Feast of St. Matthias, from this date forward the second letter indicates the Sunday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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