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The Second Ecumenical Sacred Council of the Vatican, recognizing
the importance of the wishes expressed by many concerning the assignment
of the feast of Easter to a fixed Sunday and concerning an unchanging
calendar, having carefully considered the effects which could result
from the introduction of a new calendar, declares as follows:
The Sacred Council would not object if the feast of Easter were
assigned to a particular Sunday of the Gregorian Calendar, provided
that those whom it may concern, especially the brethren who are not in
communion with the Apostolic See, give their assent.
The sacred Council likewise declares that it does not oppose efforts
designed to introduce a perpetual calendar into civil society.
But among the various systems which are being suggested to stabilize a
perpetual calendar and to introduce it into civil life, the Church has
no objection only in the case of those systems which retain and
safeguard a seven-day week with Sunday, without the introduction of
any days outside the week, so that the succession of weeks may be left
intact, unless there is question of the most serious reasons.
Concerning these the Apostolic See shall judge.
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