 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...The rule given at the beginning of the Prayer-book to find Easter is this : ' 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.'... | |
 | 696 pages
...Book of Common Prayer, and enjoined by the Act 24, George II. The rule is that " Easter day is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21 ; and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after." Bishop Sparrow,... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1864 - 1034 pages
...this rule, supposed to have the authority. of the Council of Nicaea, is — ' Easter-day is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twentyfirst day of March ; and if the full moon happens 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 accordance... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Thomas De Witt Talmage - Bible stories, English - 1894 - 690 pages
...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 2 1 , is filled with Easter rejoicing. The Royal Court of the Sabbaths is made up of fifty-two.... | |
 | Episcopal Church, William McGarvey - 1895 - 682 pages
...know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-Days begin. FASTER-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.... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1896 - 2120 pages
...Nov. 30 Nov. 29 Nov. 28 NOTE,— EASTER DAY (on which all the other movable 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.... | |
 | Frederick James Britten - Clocks and watches - 1896 - 474 pages
...one day. The Number of Direction. — The Council of Nice decided, AD, 325, that Easter Day is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the 2 ist of March. Easter Day, therefore, cannot take place earlier than the 22nd of March, or later than... | |
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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,... 
