Rogation Days

The Rogation Days, observed by asking God's blessings on the resources he has given us.

There are three homilies dealing with Rogation Days.

Throughout their period of residence, the family would also open the chapel to local people on an annual basis, often during Rogation days and at Christmas.

See Rogation days for usage pertaining to the Christian calendar of the Western Church.

Some Lutheran church calendars continue the observation of Ember and Rogation days though the practice has diminished over the past century.

Often the Ember Days or Rogation Days are also specified, and the eves of certain feasts.

The Rogation Days are always the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension Day.

The revision of the liturgical calendar in 1969 laid down the following rules for Ember Days and Rogation days:

Rogation Days are, in the calendar of the Western Church, four days traditionally set apart for solemn processions to invoke God's mercy.

To mark the Rogation Days, Otto travelled to his palace at Memleben, the place where his father had died 37 years earlier.

In England the Litany of Rogation Days (Gang-Days) was known in the earliest periods.

Rogation Days are the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following the Twenty Eighth Sunday of the Year and can be moved to suit local custom.

The faithful typically observed the Rogation days by fasting in preparation to celebrate the Ascension, and farmers often had their crops blessed by a priest at this time.

His primary contribution to ecclesiastical practice was the introduction of litanies prior to Ascension Day as an intercession against earthquakes and other disasters, leading to "Rogation Days."

In the Latin Church follow the Rogation Days; in the Greek Church on Tuesday is kept the apodosis or conclusion of the feast of Easter.

Corbett realised that soon it would be Michaelmas and these were the Rogation Days when the priest blessed the soil and asked God's help for the sowing and future harvest.

The reform of the Liturgical Calendar for Latin Roman Catholics in 1969 delegated the establishment of Rogation Days, along with Ember Days, to the episcopal conferences.

It had its origin in days of prayer and repentance proclaimed in the early days of the American colonies by Royal Governors, often before the spring planting (cf. Rogation Days).

These included Advent, the Ember Days, the Rogation Days, Fridays throughout the year, sometimes Wednesdays and Saturdays also, and the day before some important feast days (called a vigil).

Although a significant part of the parish boundary is coast which does not need to be "beaten", St Osyth is one parish which maintains the tradition of beating the bounds on Rogation days.

The general chapter met each year at Sempringham on the Rogation Days, and was attended by the prior, cellarer, and two prioresses from each house, the scrutators general, and the scrutators of the cloister.

Rogation days are, in the calendar of the Western Church, observed on 25 April (the Major Rogation) and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday immediately preceding Ascension Thursday (the Minor Rogations).

In 1228, he relieved the priory of the expense of providing food during the meeting of the general chapter at the mother-house on the Rogation Days by his gift of the church of Fordham, which was worth fifty-five marks a year.

Early Prayer Books set out rules that were in-line with the Sarum Rite of the time, where most days prior to Solemnities and Feasts were delegated as "days of abstinence" along with the Rogation Days.

The three days before Ascension Thursday are sometimes referred to as the Rogation days and the previous Sunday, the Sixth Sunday of Easter (or the Fifth Sunday after Easter), as Rogation Sunday.