Moveable feast

Moveable feast

In Christianity, a moveable feast or movable feast is a holy daya feast day or a fast daywhose date is not fixed to a particular day of the calendar year but moves in response to the date of Easter, the date of which varies according to a complex formula. Easter is itself a "moveable feast".[citation needed]

In addition, in the Anglican Christian tradition, Boxing Day, the first working day after Christmas, is also a moveable feast, it is normally the 26th of December (which is also St Stephen's Day), but if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday then Boxing Day is the following Monday.

By extension, other religions' feasts are occasionally described by the same term. In addition many countries have secular holidays that are moveable, for instance to make holidays more consecutive; the term "moveable feast" is not used in this case however.

By metaphoric extension, a movable feast was used by Ernest Hemingway to mean the memory of a splendid place that continues to go with the moving traveler for the rest of life, after he has had the experience of it and gone away. The author used the term A Moveable Feast for the title of his late-life memoirs of his early life as a struggling writer in Paris in the 1920s. He said to a friend: "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."[1]

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Moveable feasts in Christianity

  • Triodionthe period of 70 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
  • Septuagesima63 days (ninth Sunday) before Easter (PreVatican II Calendar)
  • Saturday of Souls57 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
  • Sexagesima56 days (eighth Sunday) before Easter (PreVatican II Calendar)
  • Quinquagesima Sunday49 days (seventh Sunday) before Easter (PreVatican II Calendar)
  • Shrove Monday48 days before Easter. (Western Christianity)
  • Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras47 days before Easter. (Western Christianity; not technically a moveable feast, because it is not a holiday on any church calendar)
  • Ash Wednesday46 days before Easter. (Western Christianity; strictly speaking, not a feast but a fast, characterised by solemnity and acts of self-denial)
  • Triumph of Orthodoxy42 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
  • People's Sunday41 days before Easter (in Malta)
  • Mothering Sunday21 days before Easter (Anglicanism)
  • Passion Sunday14 days before Easter (Anglicanism)
  • Lazarus Saturday8 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
  • Palm Sunday7 days before Easter
  • Maundy Thursday3 days before Easter
  • Good Friday2 days before Easter (Good Friday is actually a fast rather than a feast. See Ash Wednesday above.)
  • Holy Saturday - 1 day before Easter
  • Easterthe date around which the others are placed
  • Saint Gregory's Day3 days after Easter (in Malta)
  • The Octave of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, also known as Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sundaythe Sunday after Easter.
  • Radonitsa8 or 9 days after Easter (Eastern Orthodox)
  • Ascension Day39 days after Easter
  • Pentecost49 days after Easter (50th day of Easter)
  • Whit Monday or Pentecost Mondaythe day after Pentecost
  • Trinity Sunday56 days after Easter (Western Christianity)
  • All Saints56 days after Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic), but in the West this feast is fixed on November 1
  • Corpus Christi60 days after Easter (Western Christianity)
  • feast days of some significant saints' days, if a moveable feast falls too close to their usual date.

Some of the fixed feasts in Christianity

References

  1. ^ Hotchner, A.E., Papa Hemingway, New York: De Capo Press, 2005, p.?

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