Today is the Saturday of Ember Days of Autumn. It is the last of the three Ember Days of Autumn set aside to give thanks to the Lord.
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A Friday Ember Days in Autumn
Welcome to the second of three Ember Days of Autumn. Ember Days are designed as a reminder to give thanks to the Lord for the rains and sunshine, for the birds in the air and all the beauty of life.
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Welcome to the first of three Ember Days of Autumn. Ember Days of giving thanks to the Lord is a throw back to an earlier time in the Church when being Catholic was much more demanding than it is today. Before the changes solidified by Vatican II, the whole of the Universal Church observed the changing of the seasons.
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Today is a day filled with options. The 21 day of September is both National New York Day and the Feast of Saint Matthew. This year we have a third option – an Ember Days of Autumn.
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Today’s inspiration comes from two Old School observances within the Church. It’s an Ember Days of Autumn and it’s a Friday.
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Once upon a time, Ember Days were meant to focus the faithful on God’s seasonal blessings. They were also days of fasting. This was during a time when a fast was a true fast. Today we know that a true fast, depriving the body of food and water is dangerously unhealthy.
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Today is the third and final Ember Days of the 2022-2023 Church Year. With the first Sunday of Advent, the cycle will begin again for the new Church Year. These Ember Days were once observed throughout the Universal Church.
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Hello Autumn! Have I mentioned that this is, hands down, my favorite season of all? While I love Christmas and Easter, when it comes to embracing life, there is nothing like fall. All those beautiful colors, the pleasant days and crisp nights – nothing else can come close.
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On Thursday of last week, we celebrated the Feast of the Holy Cross. Once upon a time, that feast day would signal the coming of three days of Thanksgiving to God for His seasonal blessings. Ember Days of Autumn, the last of these days, is celebrated the first Wednesday after Holy Cross.
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Good Day. Welcome to the final Ember Days of the Catholic Calendar year. Even so, we have 13 celebrated Feast Days remaining before Christ the King Sunday, the final Sunday before Advent and the new year.
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Welcome to the second Ember Days of Autumn. This day is a celebration of the changing season, to give thanks for the grapes that will become wine while standing as a reminder of the sacrifice made for all on Good Friday.
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This is the first Michaelmas or Autumn Ember Days of this year. Autumn Ember Days are moveable days, the first coming on the Wednesday after Holy Cross (September 14) an the 3rd Sunday of in September.
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Today is National Lobster Day. Let’s talk about the gold standard of the seafood industry for a moment. When settlers first landed in America, lobsters were in such abundance that they actually washed up on shore in piles nearly two-feet high. They were thought of as the cockroaches of the sea.
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Ember Days are among the most confusing of Catholic practices. Ember Days are by their very nature an extension of our agrarian roots. Yet most Catholics today are unfamiliar with the term Ember Days let alone how to observe them.
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Can you feel the changes in the air? Today is the Autumn Equinox, the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere. For us, summer is officially over. While some celebrate the Autumn Equinox all day, an Equinox is not a day-long event.
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