Oh what a beautiful Saturday! This is Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend. I don’t know about your part of the world, but here there are market places and street fairs galore. Plus it’s the last Ember Days of Spring.
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Celebrate the Beauty of Ember Days
Ember Days of Spring and the Lenten Season – it truly makes me want to take long walks in nature and give thanks for all the beauty that abounds.
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Today marks the first of three days once known as The Ember Days of Lent. While Ember Days with fasting traditions are no longer required and rarely observed, the meaning behind Ember Days still rings true.
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Here we are at the last Saturday of May. For many of us this is a part of a long weekend. As often in the case of long weekends, our family gathers on Sunday to celebrate together. It’s a nice way to break up the long weekend. This year is a little different, but we’ll chat about that later.
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Today is both the second Ember Days of Pentecost and National Wyoming Day. As the second Ember Days of Pentecost, it naturally falls on a Friday. In our house, that means no meat.
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Coming up with recipes to share day after day ain’t easy. Thank God for my compulsive nature and that I have 196 cookbooks in my collection thus far. The oldest is from 1899; the most recent was a gift from Kiddo for Mother’s Day.
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Today is the last of the Ember Days of Lent or Spring. Most Catholics today, even older Catholics, pre-Vatican II Catholics such as myself, have no real memory of Ember Days from before. In 1969; the Vatican left the celebration of Ember Days up to the discretion of each National Conference of Bishops.
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Today is the second Friday following Ash Wednesday, but the 1st Friday of Lent. It has something to do with Sundays as the start of the week, so the 1st Friday isn’t counted the same as all the other Fridays.
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It has been one full week since Ash Wednesday trumped Valentine’s Day. After all, Ash Wednesday is a day of Fasting, which makes a lavish Valentine’s Day celebration rather difficult. This is the first Wednesday following the first Friday of Lent.
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Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord
Today is the final Ember Days of Spring. Spring, a time of renewal. A time of growth. A time to draw ever closer to God.
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Ember Days of Spring makes me think America the Beautiful. But that’s a whole other subject, right? Today is both an Ember Days of Spring and the second Friday of Lent.
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Show us, O Lord, the light of Your kindness
Today is the first of three Ember Days of Spring or the Lenten Season. These are days of old, no longer held in the same high regard as before. They were observed as days of fasting and abstinence. The Ember Days of Spring are movable; as they are observed on the first Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following Ash Wednesday.
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Today is the third and final Ember Days of the Spring Season. It is also National Baked Scallop Day. Now I thought long and hard about what to share for today’s recipe.
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Today is the second Friday of Lent, the second Ember Days of Spring and National Eat Your Noodles Day. What a winning combination!
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Today is the first Ember Days of the Lenten or Spring Season. Last year, Ember Days Wednesday happened to fall on National Corn Tortilla Chip Day. This year we have both Crab Meat Day and National Meatball Day for inspiration.
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