movable feasts

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 223 words | Copyright

movable feasts. Annual ecclesiastical feasts which do not fall on a fixed day in the secular calendar, but vary according to certain rules. Thus Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon between 21 Mar. and 18 Apr.

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