Ideally, this should have been completed prior to
last session’s running. I had a moment of panic when I thought I had made the
PCs sin unwittingly by having them consume full meals during Lent, but upon
recalculation of the differences between our Gregorian Calendar and the Julian
Calendar which they would have been using, the time of year in which the
session took place would have come a bit ahead of the date I originally
thought. I can now say with confidence and significant relief that the current date
is the early morning of 18 February, and Lent will just commence. The day of
the week is Wednesday.
Bold capitals indicate crucial holidays, in which missing church service would be unthinkable. For holidays in bold type, it's strongly recommended unless one has a very good excuse. In other case
This table enabled the
calculation of Movable Feasts for the 49th Year of the Reign of
Edward III.
January
- 1 Feast of the Circumcision
of the Christ
- 2 Feast of Saints Basil the
Great and Gregory of Nazianzus
- 4 THE EPIPHANY
- 5 Plough Monday, when work
resumes and Plough Guild asks contributions
- 13 Feast of St Hilary of
Poiters and Commemoration of St Mungo
- 17 Feast of St Antony of Egypt
(patron of basket and brush makers)
- 19 Feast of St Wulfstan, Bishop
of Worcester
- 21 First Feast of St Agnes of
Rome (patron of betrothed couples, virgins, rape victims)
- 24 Feast of St Timothy
- 25 Feast of the Conversation
of Paul the Apostle (weather
on this day is harbinger for the coming year)
- 26
Feast of St Polycarp
- 28 Second Feast of St Agnes of
Rome
February
- 1 Feast of St Ignatius of
Antioch
- 2 FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (Candlemas) (end of
epiphany season; blessing of votive candles in the church)
- 4 Feast of St Gilbert of
Sepringham
- 14 Feast of St Valentine
- 17 Shrove Tuesday
- 18
Ash Wednesday, commences Lent Current Game Day
- 25 Feast of Matthias the Apostle
March
- 1 Feast of St David, Patron of
Wales
- 2 Feast of St Chad of Mercia
- 7 Feast of St Thomas Aquinas
and commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
- 12 Commemoration
of St Gregory the Great
- 19 Feast of St Joseph
- 21 Commemoration of St Benedict
of Nursia/Spring Equinox
- 25 FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION (Lady Day); official New Year
- 26 Maundy Thursday (washing beggars’ feet and giving them
clothing)
- 27 GOOD FRIDAY & Paschal Full Moon
- 29 EASTER SUNDAY; Mystery Play on the Great Flood
- 30 Hock Monday
- 31 Hock Tuesday
April
- 1 All Fools’ Day; parades of
tricksters
- 21 Feast of St Anselm
- 23 Feast of St George, Patron of England
- 24 Commemoration of St Mellitus
& Translation of Relics of St Wilfrid
- 25 Feast of Mark the Evangelist
May
- 1 May Day/Feast of the Apostles Philip and James
- 2 Feast of St Athanasius
- 3-6 Rogation Days: prayer and
fasting; litanies of saints; ‘beating the bounds’
- 7 (Thursday) FEAST OF
THE ASCENSION
- 16 Pentecost Eve; day of
fasting
- 17 PENTECOST (First Novena)
- 19 Feast of St Dunstan (patron
of gold and silver smiths, locksmiths, musicians)
- 20 Feast of St Alcuin
- 24 TRINITY SUNDAY, Feast of
the Holy Trinity
- 26 Feast of St Augustine
- 28 (Thursday) Festival of Corpus Christi with mystery plays
June
- 1 Feast of Justin Martyr
- 11 Feast of Barnabas the Apostle
- 22 Feast of St Alban, first
martyr of Britain
- 23 St John’s Eve; evening bonfires
for Midsummer Day
- 24 Nativity of the Forerunner
- 29 Feast of the Apostle Peter
- 30 Feast of the Apostle Paul
July
- 2 Feast of the Vissitation (Friars Minor)
- 7 Translation of St Thomas
Becket
- 15 Feast of St Swithun (patron
of weather)
- 22 Feast of St Mary Magdalene (patron of apothecaries, tanners,
reformed women)
- 25 Feast of the Apostle James
- 26 Feast of Saint Anne
August
- 1 Lammas; consecration of first
loaves from ripe grain
- 2 Feast of St Dominic (Friars
Preacher)
- 6 The Transfiguration of Our Lord
- 12 Feast of St Clare (Poor
Clares)
- 15 Feast of the Assumption
of Our Lady
- 24 Feast of the Apostle Bartholomew; blessing of mead
- 28 Feast of St Augustine
- 29 The Beheading of John the
Baptist (fast day)
September
- 8 Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady; official beginning of
harvests and related celebrations
- 14 The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (beginning of monastic
winter)
- 19 Commemoration of Theodore of
Canterbury
- 21 Feast of the Apostle Matthew
- 29 Michaelmas/Beginning of Autumn; first wheat and rye harvest
- 30 St Jerome’s Memorial
October
- 4 (Sunday) Dedication Festivals & Feast of St Francis
- 10 Feast of St Paulinus of York
- 11 Commemoration of James the Deacon & St Æthelburh
of Barking
- 12 Feast of St Wilfrid of Ripon
- 13 Feast of St Edward the
Confessor
- 18 Feast of Luke the Evangelist (patron of artists, physicians, surgeons)
- 25 Festival of the Martyrs
Crispin and Crispinian (patrons
of leather workers, weavers)
- 26 Feast of King Alfred the
Great
- 28 Feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude
- 31 All Hallow’s Eve; vigil of All Saints’ Day (bonfires,
chestnut roasting, apples)
November
(‘Blood Month’, time of salting and curing meat
for winter)
- 1 HALLOWMAS
- 2 Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
- 11 Martinmas; commence fasting
for Quadragesima Sancti Martini
until Christmas
- 16 Commemoration of St Edmund
of Abingdon
- 17 Commemoration of St Hugh (patron
of sick people, swans)
- 19 Commemoration of St Hilda
- 20 Feast of Edumnd the Martyr
- 22 Music Festival of St
Cecillia
- 23 Commemoration of the First
Apostolic Father
- 25 Feast of St Catherine of
Alexandria (patron of craftsmen
who work with a wheel)
- 29 (Sunday) ADVENT; for penitence before
Christmas
- 30 Feast of the Apostle Andrew (patron of fishermen, fish mongers and rope makers)
December
- 6 Feast of St Nicholas; nuns leave donations at
doorsteps of needy in evening
- 8 Feast of the Immaculate
Conception
- 21 Feast of Thomas the
Apostle (Winter Solstice; festival of light)
- 22 (Sunday) Celebration of
Christ the King
- 25 CHRISTMAS DAY; all grain harvests finished by this day
- 26 Commemoration of the Protomartyr Stephen; bleeding of
livestock
- 27 Feast of the Apostle John
- 28 Feast of the Holy Innocents/Children’s Mass
- 29 Feast of St Thomas Becket
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