You just need to call (or create) a calendar or date and time function/object and add three to the last Thursday in November. Or find a Sunday between 27 Nov and 3 Dec as stated.
The what now?
OK, I looked. I hadn’t heard of this! That the feast of Christ the King for us Catholics.
Feast of Three Kings (Epiphany) is after Christmas. This one appears to be before Advent.
Not those kings, Christ the King!
Thanks!
In the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Sunday Next Before Advent begins “Stir up thy people, O Lord…,”
It became traditional to begin the Christmas baking that Sunday, which involved stirring the pudding batter. Everyone in the house is expected to take a turn for good luck.
Hence, “Stir-up Sunday.” 
I swear it said Three Kings! (Damn eyes.)
ETA: And I swear on preview I saw Three Kings again. My brain is apparently just wanting to read that for some reason.
In the spirit of ecumenism, I will make a note to bake something that day!
If you can do it by the days of the week, like “last Thusday in November”, wouldn’t it be simpler to say “last Sunday in November”?
“Last Sunday in November” is incorrect, though. It could be December 1, 2, or 3.
You see, this is why I come to you guys on anything related to numbers.
4 Sundays before Christmas /= 4 weeks before Christmas.
Before the calendar reform of 1962, the feast of Christ the King was celebrated on the last Sunday in October. The final Sunday of the liturgical year (i.e. the one immediately preceding the first Sunday of Advent) was known as the Last Sunday after Pentecost. Its collect begins Excita, quaesumus Domine, tuorum fidelium voluntates… or
the original source for the collect in the Book of Common Prayer.
I’m going to have to go with this. Seriously, if you can put even 5 years of dates in a table, that’s something you only need to touch once every 5 years to keep it running. Also, when you turn it over to someone else to work on, it’s not some arcane calculation that requires someone to count out days to check that it’s correct, it’s a date.
I thought this thread would be about how to best get the color in the web browser to match the pulpit cloth.
Your best bet is to use someone else’s code for the liturgical calendar. A quick search on github reveals [url=https://github.com/caiofior/catholic-liturgical-calendar]at least one open source project. Simply plug it into your code and add a few lines of logic to change the color. If you find an bug in the code, let the author know so everyone can benefit from fixing it.
Thanks for the info! I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Stir up…”; I think that one I would have noticed!
gigi, b. 1968