Major Rogation & Easter?

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Is major rogation (normally on April 25) just eliminated altogether this year since it falls in the Octave of Easter?
 
I thought the rule was that if Easter was on April 25 then major rogation moves to the next Tuesday. In all other circumstances major rogation would stay on April 25.
 
Huh. I can’t find any evidence of what happens. Seems the Rogation procession continues during the Octave?
 
I don’t know if Rogations are done in the Ordinary Form.

In the Ordo produced by the Latin Mass Society (in the UK) for 2019 for the Extraordinary Form: the Greater Rogation is still to be observed on 25th April 2019 but not the feast of St. Mark.
 
TomH1 said:
I don’t know if Rogations are done in the Ordinary Form.
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They’re not, to my knowledge.

I do them out of old Missals as a traditional devotion along with Ember Days.

I assumed the traditionalist EF parishes do observe them but I don’t have the time to seek out such a parish right now.
 
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Do you mean the Greater Litanies? That is set on April 25th unless Easter falls on that date. The Rogation Days are the Mon, Tues, Wed leading up to Ascension Thursday.
 
Those are the minor Rogations. The major Rogation is April 25.
 
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The major Rogation is April 25.
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Except :“if Easter or the Monday after Easter fall on that day (the 25th), they are transferred to the following Tuesday” (Code of Rubrics, 1960, item 80).
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13110b.htm
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Thank you! So from what I’m seeing there and elsewhere is that the Feast of St. Mark would likely be transferred if the Major Rogation occurs during the Octave of Easter, but the Rogation procession would still remain on the 25th (of course, were the 25th Easter, that’s a different set of circumstances).

So my question is do we still fast when it’s occurring during the Octave?

I’m guessing the answer is no, especially since it’s not listed as a fasting day on the Traditio calendar (no comment on that source…): http://traditio.com/calendar/cal1904.pdf

Think that’s right?
 
I can’t find anything anywhere that says the Major Rogation in the Catholic Church was supposed to be a fast and abstinence day. The only reference to fasting I find associated with that day is in some Church of England book, which I’m certainly not going to follow. Everything I’m reading just says they said prayers and had a procession.

The minor rogation days seem to have been the fast and abstinence days.
 
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Thank you! The wiki entry seems to assume that fasting and abstinence apply to all Rogation days. But of course, it’s Wikipedia so… I’ll have a look at My Catholic Faith by Fr. Morrow when I am back home.
 
Yeah, let me know if we’re supposed to fast but it would seem odd that the Church would want that when we just finished Lent. And since April 25 is always going to be within a month after Easter it’s always going to be “just finished Lent”.
 
In the EF calendar, at least, it is a 1st Class Feast day due to the privileged Octave of Easter. No fasting. The Feast of St. Mark is not transferred.
 
The FSSP Ordo for this year says that the Mass is for Easter Thursday; the Greater Litanies are said for the Rogation, and there is no commemoration of St. Mark at all.
 
From the SSPX:
As regards fasting, properly so called, being contrary to the spirit of Paschal Time, it would seem never to have been observed on this day, at least not generally. Amalarius, who lived in the ninth century, asserts that it was not then practiced even in Rome.
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So live it up after Easter Sunday, @Tis_Bearself!
 
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