Talk:Moveable feast

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—Yamara ✉ 11:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does this page need an overhaul and rewrite to make it more concise and precise? For example, with the Christian part of the article, Easter is the principal Moveable Feast, on which all the others depend; the other half of the year, from Advent to Candlemas, is determined in relation to Christmas, which is, of course, fixed. Saints' days are fixed, except where they occur on a higher ranking Moveable Feast, and are then transferred, commemorated or suppressed in that year.

I may be really off here, since I'm no expert on this subject, but isn't Candlemas always on Feb. 2? What about Whitsuntide, Palm Sunday, days like those? -- Zoe

I'm not sure that Palm Sunday is a feast per se; in Eastern Orthodoxy, it's right around the transition from Great Lent to Holy Week, and at most would only include a slight relaxation of the Lenten fast, such as allowing fish and oil that day. February 2 is always the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, sometimes called the Encounter instead of Presentation. I think Roman Catholics emphasize the cleansing of Mary in the Temple that day, but celebrate the same event. Don't know what Candlemas and Whitsuntide are... Wesley

If this is about Christianity then the inclusion of Japanese holidays seems misplaced. If it is about other things as well, then Independence Day (always on the 4th of July) could be contrasted with Thanksgiving Day (usually taken to have religious significance, not always Christian, even though its date was enacted by a supposedly religiously neutral Congress) in that the latter is the fourth Thursday in November rather than always on the same date. And what of Richard Nixon's reforms that made Memorial Day, Columbus Day, and perhaps a few others, always fall on the nearest Monday to a particular date? And how do Muslims decide when the Hajj takes place? Michael Hardy 23:10, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I have removed the sections for Japanese, Canadian, and American holidays as these are not relevant to the artice and it might get out of hand. All the info can be found on the pages:

• Holidays_of_the_United_States
• Holidays_of_the_Japan
• Holidays_of_Canada

Zabdiel 18:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do we actually need a list of fixed feasts here ? -- Beardo 22:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was somewhere else and wanted to know the usage of this term; this article was concise and very helpful! Thanks a lot, made my day a little less infuriating. —The preceding

-Pat 21:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where, in the world, in the spelling "moveable" used? I thought it was universally "movable". 82.13.26.251 (talk) 21:30, 5 April 2009 (UTC) British spelling is moveable[reply]

I just want to point out that Harvest Festival in the Anglican church is a moveable feast that is not determined by the date of easter. It is held on the nearest Sunday to the nearest full moon to the autumn equinox. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peas Pudding (talk • contribs) 18:29, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If it is kept, the classic definition is the Sunday following the September Ember Days, therefore on or between 19 and 25 September. That's a fixed Sunday, like Advent Sunday being fixed to the fourth Sunday before Christmas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.169.49 (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is no "Sextopola - 69 days before Easter (Pre-

this was dictated into my android phone, sorry if there are typos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.4.201.146 (talk) 06:28, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]