![]() On August 10, 1218, King James established the royal, military and religious Order of our Lady of Ransom (first known as the Order of St. Raymond of Penafort and James, king of Aragon, asking them to found a religious order dedicated to freeing Christian captives from the barbarous Saracens or Moors, who at the time held a great part of Spain. The Blessed Virgin appeared in 1218 in separate visions to St. In the previous calendar (1962) today is the commemoration of Our Lady of Ransom. On March 29, 2020, England was rededicated as the “Dowry of Mary” with Our Lady of Walsingham being the central Marian devotion around the rededication. The original house was destroyed by Henry VIII, but by 1897 the chapel was reconstructed and pilgrimage was restored both for Anglicans and for Catholics. In 1061, The lady of the manor of Walsingham, Richeldis de Faverches, was instructed by a vision of the Virgin Mary to build in her village an exact replica of the house in Nazareth in which the Annunciation had taken place. This feast day celebrates the shrine in Norfolk, England, which was a popular medieval pilgrimage site. The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is entrusted to Mary under this title. The Memorial of Our Lady of Walsingham was reinstated to the liturgical calendar in England in 2000. See Contemporary Observation of Ember Days for more information. Today is Ember Friday of the Fall or September Ember Days. » Enjoy our Liturgical Seasons series of e-books! ![]() The Week in the Shadow of the Exalted Cross.Preparing for a Shift in the Liturgical Year.Description of Ember Days by Bernard Strasser.Rejoice the Lord is Near: Gaudete Sunday, Ember Days and O Antiphons by Jennifer Gregory Miller.Lenten Ember Days by Jennifer Gregory Miller.Contemporary Observation of Ember Days (particularly related to September) by Jennifer Gregory Miller.Ember Days may look a bit different than pre-Vatican II (but even before 1962 Maria von Trapp was bemoaning how they were different and disappearing in her contemporary 1955 America), but the Ember Days are still a part of the Church’s living tradition. There is an unbroken continuum within the Church’s Liturgy. Ember Days are still a part of the Church’s tradition. Practicing Ember Days is not intended to be a backward-looking movement or living in the past. ![]() Although not required, the traditional fasting and abstaining of these days are an external expression of turning our hearts and focusing back to God. But naturally the change of seasons seem to tug and encourage us for renewal and change (spring and fall cleaning, anyone?). Both seasons are a time for change of heart and renewal. In addition, the Church provides us two seasons of preparation, Advent and Lent. Ember Days are a quarterly observance the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of one week of each season that “the Church is accustomed to entreat the Lord for the various needs of humanity, especially for the fruits of the earth and for human labor, and to give thanks to him publicly.” ( Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, 45). Once again, I turn to the Church’s Ember Days as an aid to looking at nature and the change of seasons and recognizing them all as a gift from God. But a pumpkin spice latte and football game aren’t true signals of the season change, because the specially-flavored latte tends to return earlier each year, and added pre-season games blur the true end of summer and beginning of Fall. We have lost contact the actual natural signs of the seasons of the year and turn to manmade expressions as signals for the change of seasons. Sadly, that is what the fall season means to so many people. My post at from September 15, 2015:įootball games and pumpkin spice beverages and foods return Autumn is upon us. September Ember Dates for 2015 are September 23, 25, and 26. ![]()
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