[Magdalen] Calendar question

[Charles Wohlers]

My guess (and it's only a guess, but shared by my dear wife) is that "a 
Sunday" is mainly for those parishes whose patronal saint's day falls in 
Lent, Easter, or Advent (e. g., St. Thomas) and so can't be transferred to 
an adjacent Sunday.

But, as I said, that's only a guess.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jo Craddock
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 9:20 PM
To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: [Magdalen] Calendar question

It's still a wild and crazy ride at St. James, Baton Rouge, where we expect
our interim to be in place for another year, but where we've also raised
$2.2M to make emergency (50 years in the making) repairs to our 1894 brick
and soft pink mortar church (
http://stjamesbr.org/documents/CampaignIntroductionBrochureFINAL.pdf for
any interested), and I've been limited to skimming the list every 24-48
hours for news and prayer with and for you.

But, where better to turn with an Anglican question?!

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.

Does anyone have experience moving a feast date so liberally?

Thanks, and

Peace,
Jo