Finding Movable Dates

[PaladinValer]

This will probably appeal to those who are mathematically-inclined (God knows I have abysmally little talent in that regard), although I'm hoping for an "easy fix".

I'm working on something that probably will be used with the Youth Group I lead. It is a table with the movable Feasts on it that happen on X date if Pascha (Easter Sunday) occurs on Y date.

The problem is, I am finding it very frustrating figuring it all out. So, I am going to appeal to all of you and hope that someone with far more skill can help me out: is there a website out there that will do the calculations for me?

Specifically, it is for these Feasts:

Ash Wednesday
The Ascension
Pentecost Day
First Book of Common Prayer
Trinity Sunday
Corpus Christi
Christ the King
Advent Sunday

Any help at all is appreciated.

 

[gtsecc]

Well, fixed feasts are fixed.
Movable feasts are all Easter, plus or minus a few days.
Right?

For example, Ash Wednessday is Easter, minus 46 days.

 

[DeoJuvante]

I threw together an excel spreadsheet to give you an idea of how it's done. Once you know that date of Easter, all you have to do is add or subtract a fixed number of days. Some of the feasts that you listed are fixed feasts, however. For example, Advent Sunday is always the Sunday closest to 30 November.

It wouldn't let me attach an excel file for some reason, but you can get it here: http://files-upload.com/files/510143/easter.xls

 

[PaladinValer]

Awesomeness!

Thank you!

 

[DarkNLovely]

Calrndars! Hey!! Some in the EOC are the Old Calendar or the New Calendar. Does Anglicanism also have this issue?

 

[PaladinValer]

Nope. That's an issue that is, I believe without exception, only dealt with in the Eastern Churches (Oriental and Eastern Orthodox).

 

[DarkNLovely]

Thank you! Just for clarifiactions sake, Anglicans are on wat THEY would call the New Calaendar?

PalVal! You are so informed! Where did you study? Where did you find the time? LOL!

 

[PaladinValer]

We use the Gregorian Calendar, just like pretty much everyone else does around the world.

Our liturgical Kalendar (we sometimes use a "k" instead of a "c" when we discuss the liturgical year instead of the secular year) is also based on the Gregorian, with feasts associated on certain days, most fixed but some are flexible (ie: Trinity Sunday), Corpus Christi, Pentecost Day, etc), all depending on which day Pascha (aka "Easter Day;" Easter is a seaon and not just one specific day, after all) falls on each year.

Most of my studies are simply reading a whole lot of books and other writen materials, although I had taken many religious studies classes when I was still in college (God I wish I was still there...), most of them focusing on Christianity but a few world religion courses as well.

Asides from my purely Anglican Studies, Church History, particularly from Pentecost to the 7th Ecumenical Council, is of greatest interest to me.

As for where I find the time, time to me is a companion that, if you want to spend a longer duration with, you simply need to appreciate your bond with it more. Since I like to think I have a healthy relationship with time, I find I have plenty of it.

Current projects:

1. Finishing The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer (an absolute must read)
2. Finishing my personal Kalendar of the Saints (proving to be very enjoyable)
3. Finishing my religious defense of the Harry Potter books (now that I've read all of them, I really need to retackle what I got and give it a good twice over then a spit and polish)
4. Finishing my personal Divine Liturgy of the Mass (hope to post it someday here)
5. Finishing my personal "50 Articles of Religion" (just needs a bit of peer-review)