ember days

It would be half a year just past the Ember Days of spring.

She is seen mostly in Saturday night after the four Ember days.

The ember days began on the Wednesday immediately following those days.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church ember days have never been observed.

Ember days occurred four times a year.

Granted permission to receive the sacred orders outside the Ember days, December 9, 1604.

As a result the ember days in September could fall after either the second or third Sunday in September.

Ember days, fasting days within Western Christian churches.

The only Modern English word that derives directly from it is the little-used Ember days, a Christian event.

From Rome the Ember days gradually spread unevenly through the whole of Western Christendom.

In 1028, a Roman Catholic synod was held, whose most important result was the introduction of ember days with their strict rules for fasting.

Formerly, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following 14 September were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days.

The Ember Weeks-the weeks in which the Ember Days occur-are the weeks:

Perchta (Quatemberca, Kvaternica, Lady of the Ember Days)

Before the Ember Days of spring they would leave their current Astibar-Tregea-Ferraut loop and head south across the wide grainlands of Certando.

On Vigils in Advent that were not also Ember days, if the office was ferial the Mass wa of the Vigil commemorating the feria.

In mediaeval times Christians practised two kinds of days of repentance, those scheduled on particular events of emergency and those celebrated on the Ember days.

The Ember Days have a large fan base among Christians in their former home of New Zealand and also in other places, most notably the USA.

The Ember Days are known in Latin as quatuor tempora (the "four seasons"), or jejunia quatuor temporum ("fasts of the four seasons").

On February 17, 1966, Pope Paul VI's decree Paenitemini excluded the Ember Days as days of fast and abstinence for Roman Catholics.

In order to adapt the rogation and ember days to various regions and the different needs of the people, the conferences of bishops should arrange the time and plan of their celebration.

It begins in the middle of the sixth Mass for April, and ends with a blessing for the font "In ieiunio mensis decimi" (i. e. the winter Ember days).

On Thursdays between the Ember days, periods of fasting for the Catholic Church, the Benandanti claimed their spirits would leave their bodies at night in the form of small animals.

At weddings or naming days, and once with a traveling priest of Morian he sang counterpoint during the autumn Ember Days on the "Hymn to Morian of Portals."

The Christian observation of this seasonal observance of the Ember days had its origin as an ecclesiastical ordinance in Rome and spread from there to the rest of the Western Church.