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Winter ember days12/31/2023 ![]() ![]() It is traditional, on the major rogation day to recite the Litany of All Saints, and to walk in procession around the boundaries of the parish, blessing the crops.įor those of us who live where parishes are big and crops are few, we could offer our prayers and abstinence from meat for farmers and for the victims of natural disasters. Though often referred to as fasting days, during the Easter season, they would have been observed as days of abstinence from meat, but not days of fasting. It’s an unlikely time for extra days of penance, as it’s during Eastertide, but they were offered to God during the spring planting season in the hopes that the wheat crop would be protected from natural disasters. Mark, April 25th (but is unrelated to the Evangelist), and the minor rogation days fall on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before the Ascension. The major rogation falls on the feast of St. The Blessing of the Wheat in Artois, 1857 – Jules BretonĪnother category of now-little known days of penance are the rogation days. If you have experience observing Ember Days in your home, especially with a family, I’d love to hear about what you do. I put them on the calendar, so I’m hopeful that this is the year Ember Days happen for us! In the U.S., observation of the Ember Days is recommended, but not mandatory.***īut.Since 1966, observation is left up to the discretion of the local bishops.**.Until 1966, the Ember Days were a required observation for all Catholics (except for those exempt for reasons of age or health).Fasting is binding from age eighteen to fifty-nine (except for those exempt for reasons of age or health).* Abstinence is binding from age fourteen.permit one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The penance is traditionally fasting on Wednesday and Saturday, and fasting and abstinence from meat on Friday.If the feast day falls on a Wednesday, the Ember Days begin on the following Wednesday.The fall Ember Days follow the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14th) and are offered in thanksgiving for the grape harvest, which gives us the Precious Blood.The summer Ember Days follow Pentecost (movable, the eighth Sunday after Easter) and are offered in thanksgiving for the wheat harvest, which gives us the Eucharist.The spring Ember Days follow Ash Wednesday (movable, forty-six days before Easter) and are offered in thanksgiving for the flowers, which feed the bees, who make the wax, that gives us the altar candles.Lucy’s Day (December 13th) and are offered in thanksgiving for the olive harvest, which gives us holy oils. The individual feast days aren’t involved with the penance, they’re just reminders of when the Ember Days fall (although two of the feast days are penitential in themselves).Friday is in memory of the crucifixion.Wednesday is memory of Judas’ betrayal.They occur on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of the same week.The Ember Days are four sets of three days of penance, one set at the beginning of each season. ![]()
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