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    Rogation days, also known as Rogationtide, are days of prayer and fasting in Western Christianity. They are observed with processions and the Litany of...
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    down the following rules for Ember Days and Rogation days: "In order that the Rogation Days and Ember Days may be adapted to the different regions and...
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  • Saints was prayed. The "Litania Minor", also called Minor Rogations or "Gallicana", the Rogation Days before Ascension, was introduced (477) by St. Mamertus...
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    Lammas (category Scottish quarter days)
    when ploughs would be brought to church to be blessed; and Rogation days in May, the days before Ascension Day, when God's blessing would be sought on...
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  • prescribes certain days as days for fasting and abstinence, "consisting of the 40 days of Lent, the ember days, the three Rogation days (the Monday to Wednesday...
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    Principal Feast.[citation needed] The three days before Ascension Thursday are sometimes referred to as the Rogation days, and the previous Sunday—the Sixth Sunday...
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    Lent (redirect from Great Forty days)
    Christmas Day" as days of fasting and abstinence, alongside the forty days of Lent, the Ember Days, the Rogation Days, and the vigils of feast days. Saint Augustine's...
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    failures; it was common to hold a Fast Day before the spring planting (cf. rogation days). It was observed by church attendance, fasting, and abstinence from...
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    the Rogation days: May 26 Rogation Sunday Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding Feast of the Ascension: May 27–29 Minor Rogation days 39 days after...
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    Asia, Sunday of the Man Born Blind. In the Latin Church follow the Rogation Days; in the Greek Church on Tuesday is kept the apodosis or conclusion of...
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  • prescribes certain days as days for fasting and abstinence, "consisting of the 40 days of Lent, the ember days, the three rogation days (the Monday to Wednesday...
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    Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Mid-Pentecost Fifth Sunday of Easter Rogation days Ascensiontide Ascension of Jesus Art Feast of the Ascension Cenacle...
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    an intercession against earthquakes and other disasters, leading to "Rogation Days." His feast day is the first of the Ice Saints. Prior to his elevation...
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  • Look up rogation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rogation may refer to: Rogation days, as marked on the Christian calendar of the Western Church Rogatio...
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    Fasting (redirect from Fast days)
    as Lent, especially on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The rogation days are traditional days of fasting, as well as abstinence of meat, in Lutheranism...
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  • prescribes certain days as days for fasting and abstinence from meat, "consisting of the 40 days of Lent, the ember days, the three Rogation days (the Monday...
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    Sunday after, on the Apostles' Days and on all Evangelists' Days (excepting St. John, Apostle, Evangelist), on Martyrs' Days, on All Saints' Day, for the...
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  • there is a list of "Days of Fasting, or Abstinence," consisting of the 40 days of Lent, the ember days, the three rogation days (the Monday to Wednesday...
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    with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the days leading up to Ash Wednesday provide the last opportunity for feasting (including...
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    that one might give up as their Lenten sacrifice for the upcoming forty days, are associated with Shrove Tuesday celebrations. The term Mardi Gras is...
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  • celebrated on these days. Greater non-privileged ferias: The ferias of Advent, Lent, and Passion Week, Rogation Monday, and the Ember Days. Any feast day except...
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  • specific manner of observance of these days. Other days for prayer and optional fasting include rogation days, traditionally observed on April 25 and...
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    in Acts of the Apostles says that Jesus remained with the apostles for 40 days, whereas the account in the Gospel of Luke makes no clear distinction between...
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    Shrove Monday (category Christian festivals and holy days)
    the fat for the following day's pancakes. It is rarely celebrated these days. In east Cornwall, it is sometimes called Peasen Monday or Paisen Monday...
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    Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Mid-Pentecost Fifth Sunday of Easter Rogation days Ascensiontide Ascension of Jesus Art Feast of the Ascension Cenacle...
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    Baucalis Feast of Saint Mark John the Evangelist Luke the Evangelist Rogation days Latin: Marcus; Ancient Greek: Μᾶρκος, romanized: Mârkos; Imperial Aramaic:...
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    Holy Wednesday (category Eastern Orthodox liturgical days)
    Holy Saturday used to be held towards the close of each of the preceding days. This custom is still retained by those Catholic Churches which celebrate...
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    Station days were days of fasting in the early Christian Church, associated with a procession to certain prescribed churches in Rome, where the Mass and...
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    "days of fasting or abstinence", alongside the forty days of Lent, the Ember Days, the Rogation Days, and the vigils of the most prominent feast days....
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    was raised to life again. This is the reason we use eggs on Easter. (In days past some used to color the eggs red, so as to show the kind of death by...
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