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With the arrival of mid-September, and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (14 Sept) we come around again to our Ember Days. The September Ember Days this year are today, Wednesday 20 Sept, Friday 22 and Saturday 23.
More on Ember Days, HERE.
Observance of Ember Days is very ancient, going back in the Roman Church to at least Gelasius I (496) who speaks of four times a year. Leo the Great (+461) preached about three times. Pope Callixtus I (+222) laid down fasting laws. The Ember Days correspond, roughly, to changes of seasons.
Keep in mind that Ember Days were times of penance. Perhaps you could fast and abstain for some good intention on these days.
If memory serves, the newer Ordo – for the Novus Ordo – mentions something about the custom of Ember Days, but it does so in such a vague way that no one might be prompted to do anything with it.
I wonder: is there still a mention of Ember Days in the Ordo for the Ordinary Form? Perhaps some priests out there who have one could check.
Fun fact.
Continued below.
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More on Ember Days, HERE.
Observance of Ember Days is very ancient, going back in the Roman Church to at least Gelasius I (496) who speaks of four times a year. Leo the Great (+461) preached about three times. Pope Callixtus I (+222) laid down fasting laws. The Ember Days correspond, roughly, to changes of seasons.
Keep in mind that Ember Days were times of penance. Perhaps you could fast and abstain for some good intention on these days.
If memory serves, the newer Ordo – for the Novus Ordo – mentions something about the custom of Ember Days, but it does so in such a vague way that no one might be prompted to do anything with it.
I wonder: is there still a mention of Ember Days in the Ordo for the Ordinary Form? Perhaps some priests out there who have one could check.
Fun fact.
Continued below.
September Ember Days
With the arrival of mid-September, and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (14 Sept) we come around again to our Ember Days. The September Ember Days this year are today, Wednesday 20 Sept, Friday 22 and Saturday 23. More on Ember Days, HERE. Observance of Ember Days is very ancient, goi
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