[Magdalen] Calendar question

[Scott Knitter]

I'm thinking the intent here is to stay close to the actual date but
celebrate the feast on a Sunday when many more parishioners can be
there. So to me, "a Sunday" would mean the Sunday before or after, or
another one nearby. But you're right that it doesn't say that
specifically, even though it could.

I just realized that this rubric allows our parish (Ascension) to
transfer the Ascension Day observance to Sunday. In another forum, the
general agreement was that we Episcopalians can't transfer it like the
RC Church often does. I seem to recall we've done it once or twice.
Normally we keep it on the Thursday, and our Bishop pontificates.

Not a big deal anyway, because the Sunday After Ascension Day has
readings highly appropriate to an Ascension observance anyway.

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Page 16 of the BCP states that ".,..the feast of [a church's] patron or
> title may be observed on, or be transferred to *a* Sunday, except in the
> seasons of Advent, Lent, and Easter."
>
> I read that *a* as, potentially, *any* ... e.g. St. James' day is July 25,
> but we could observe the feast of St. James on Sunday, September 10, or May
> 28, if desired.




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA