Tomorrow the secular world (including yours truly) will celebrate Father’s Day. Tomorrow is also Trinity Sunday, but more on that tomorrow. Today is the final Ember Days of Pentecost. It is a day for giving thanks to the Lord above.
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An Ember Days Dessert
Oh what a glorious Friday the Lord has made! The sun rose today. Birds have taken to the sky. Somewhere out there new live is coming into this world. Isn’t that reason enough to give thanks?
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Today is both the first of three Ember Days of Summer and the Memorial Feast of Saint Barnabas the Apostle. Ember Days is a throwback to an earlier time in the Church. While observed by most of the Ordained, many within the lay community don’t even know Ember Days exist.
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Hello and welcome to the final Ember Days of Pentecost or Summer for this Church Year. We’ve talked a lot about days of old, the how’s and the why’s of Catholic teachings, observations, beliefs and faith. Sometimes people get those confused – that belief and faith are the same. Belief is knowing something. Faith is following without knowing – faith requires trust.
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Today is the second Ember Days of Pentecost or Summer, but the first Ember Days of Summer to receive an optional observation. Confusing, isn’t it? When a lesser feast day (such as Ember Days, which are all optional days) falls on a feast of greater importance, the greater day is observed. This year, Mary’s visit to her cousin, Elizabeth, took precedence over the first Ember Days.
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Today is the 3rd and final Ember Days of Summer – the Ember Days following Pentecost Sunday. Summer Ember Days are to honor the harvest of wheat – the Eucharist and the Bread of Life.
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Today is the first Friday following Pentecost Sunday. It is the second of three Ember Days of Summer. Ember Days are an opportunity to give thanks to God. Thanks for all He has created.
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Here we are, at the first Wednesday following Pentecost Sunday. This is the first of three days that make up Pentecost or Summer Ember Days. The focus of Ember Days is to give thanks. In the summer we are thankful for the harvest of wheat. Without wheat, there could be no Eucharistic Mass.
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Today is the third and final Ember Days of Summer. Ember Days can be traced back to the early days of the Church in Rome. The argument often heard by Catholics is that Ember Days are based not on faith and scripture but on paganism. That it isn’t “Christian”.
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Today is Ember Days Friday of Summer. It is the first Friday following Pentecost Sunday. Summer Embers Days are meant to remind us to give thanks for God’s blessings of Nature and to appreciate those who toil the land. There is a great place of honor for those who labor in the fields, tend to the flocks and care for the land.
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Today is the first Wednesday following Pentecost Sunday. On the Catholic Calendars of old, it would have been a day of fasting and prayer as Ember Days of Pentecost, or Ember Days of Summer. Four times a year, particular Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays were once distinct days of devotion in the early Church.
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