Moveable feast
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A moveable feast is an observance in a Christian
Spring paschal feasts
Often considered the most important Christian observance, Spring paschal feasts are a fixed number of days before or after
In Eastern Christianity (including the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Eastern Catholic Churches), these moveable feasts form what is called the Paschal cycle, which stands in contrast to the approach taken by Catholic and Protestant Christianity.
Pentecost
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Moveable solemnities
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Not all observances are feasts, and among those that are moveable is the
Relationship to solar fixed feasts
Most other
See also
- Liturgical year
- Movable Eastern Christian observances
- Movable Western Christian observances
In other religions
The
The traditional Chinese calendar is lunisolar, as are others in East Asia based on it. This causes the timing of the Chinese New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and several other holidays—all traditionally associated with various rituals and offerings—to vary within the Gregorian calendar, usually within a space of two months.
In
In Islam, all holidays fixed to the lunar Islamic calendar vary completely within the Gregorian calendar, shifting by 10 or 11 days each year and moving through the entire Gregorian year over the course of about 33 years (making 34 Islamic years).
References
- ^ John Ayto Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms (2010), p. 123. 019954378X: "a movable feast an event which takes place at no regular time. In a religious context a movable feast is a feast day (especially Easter Day and the other Christian holy days whose dates are related to it) which does not occur on the same calendar date each year."
- ^ Michels, Agnes Kirsopp Lake (1949), "The 'Calendar of Numa' and the Pre-Julian Calendar", Transactions & Proceedings of the APA, vol. 80, Philadelphia: American Philological Association, pp. 320–346.
External links
- A table of moveable feasts with dates, published by the Church of England.
- "Why Some Feasts Are Moveable" – a Slate article
- "How the dates of moveable feasts are calculated, then and now" – translated from the Latin by Michael Deckers