Rogation Days

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I’m curious to see how many of you all are observing the Rogation Days this year, even if privately.

Do you think Rogation Days, along with the Ember Days, should be brought back into use?
 
To be honest, I was not catechised on the notion of a “rogation” day. Ember days are a totally foreign concept to me, too… 😊 😦

Perhaps by the time I’ve been a Catholic one year, all will fall into place… 😃
 
For those of us new to Catholicism (and/or new to Traditional/1962 Ruberics Catholicism), can one of you give a brief catechesis as to what rogation is exactly?
 
Yes, I’m following both the Rogation and Ember days this year. Its tough though. My FSSP parish is so far away. However, I’m trying to mark my calender so I don’t forget.

Going to make the drive for Ascension this Thursday for a High Mass at FSSP. Thankfully I don’t have to work on Friday.
 
dcana said:
I’m curious to see how many of you all are observing the Rogation Days this year, even if privately.

Do you think Rogation Days, along with the Ember Days, should be brought back into use?
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We had Mass and a Rogation procession last night, with the Litany of the Saints and blessing of the fields at our Institute of Christ the King apostolate in rural Wisconsin. Yes, the Church should definitely extend the Rogation and Ember days into the new calendar, IMO

Here’s a little piece I wrote on these a few years ago: Rogationtide
 
The wheat was about to form ears, and we went outside with a process, in three days to different directions. The priest blessed the fields, and with the Mass and the Litany of All Saints we prayed to God to have rain, avoid hailstorm, and to have good harvest.

The forces which empties the churches, emptied the fields too. Not Vatican II, neither her spirit. The Greed.
 
Yes bring back the Days of Rogation and the Ember days. I think we lost a great deal of our beauitful traditions with the implementation of Vatican II. Now note, that I think the counsel was a good thing.

I think I may have my garden blessed as well. Hopefully it will keep the deer out. 😃
 
GloriousOrder said:
To be honest, I was not catechised on the notion of a “rogation” day. Ember days are a totally foreign concept to me, too… 😊 😦

Perhaps by the time I’ve been a Catholic one year, all will fall into place… 😃
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Stavros said:
For those of us new to Catholicism (and/or new to Traditional/1962 Ruberics Catholicism), can one of you give a brief catechesis as to what rogation is exactly?
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I didn’t know either, except that we blessed the fields of the monastery on Ascension Thursday (and the days before?).

This is what I found at the New Advent website from the Catholic Encyclopedia:
Days of prayer, and formerly also of fasting, instituted by the Church to appease God’s anger at man’s transgressions, to ask protection in calamities, and to obtain a good and bountiful harvest, known in England as “Gang Days” and “Cross Week”, and in Germany as Bittage, Bittwoche, Kreuzwoche. The Rogation Days were highly esteemed in England and King Alfred’s laws considered a theft committed on these days equal to one committed on Sunday or a higher Church Holy Day. Their celebration continued even to the thirteenth year of Elizabeth, 1571, when one of the ministers of the Established Church inveighed against the Rogation processions, or Gang Days, of Cross Week. The ceremonial may be found in the Council of Clovesho (Thorpe, Ancient Laws, I, 64; Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, III, 564).
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The Rogation Days are the 25th of April, called Major, and the three days before the feast of the Ascension, called Minor.
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If you want to read more, here’s a link to the whole article: newadvent.org/cathen/13110b.htm

Hope this helps.

Gertie
 
Stavros said:
For those of us new to Catholicism (and/or new to Traditional/1962 Ruberics Catholicism), can one of you give a brief catechesis as to what rogation is exactly?
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I am far from being new to Catholicism but I have only recently learned about these days myself. They are among the many things “done away with” after Vatican II. They were probably made “optional” and as with everything made “optional,” given the spirit of the times (late 60’s-70’s) they were de facto discarded. A few years ago I spotted them on a Catholic calendar but I didn’t know what they were. This year, I looked them up.

Here are the best explanations of these traditions that I’ve found:
Rogation Days: fisheaters.com/customseastertide3.html
Ember Days: fisheaters.com/emberdays.html
This link has all the prayers in one place, given in Latin and English:
preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Sancti/LitSanctorum.html

Enjoy!
 
Our Archdiocese has Ember Days…once a quarter. I’m not sure how many people follow them…but I do.
 
What with all the natural calamity the world’s been facing in recent months it can’t hurt. It’s important to remember that anyone of us could have everything thing we own, and even our very lives taken at any moment. The food that’s being raised and grown on the farms throughout the US comes to us only because our gracious God has allowed it to happen. The weather, the right conditions for farming are in God’s hands and I think we do well to remember that and never take that for granted.

Our chapel had a rogation day, unfortunately this year it was during the week and I wasn’t able to attend. Last year the rogation Mass was on a Sunday. Every thing’s happening so late this year what with the late Easter. Our pastor is rushing to play catch up.
 
Rogation comes from “rogare” to ask. They were commenced about 1600 years or so in Vienne, in Gaul (now France) in the aftermath of an earthquake. Hence the “wrath of God” component. They later took on a more agricultural significance, and were prayers for a good growing season.

In the Anglican Church, one can bring in some earth from the garden or farm and the vicar will bless it.

The best “catechism” for rogation day is the hymn “O Jesus Crowned With All Renown,” set to music by R. Vaughan Williams. The tune is “Kingsfold.”

It’s one of my favorite (three) days of the calendar. It can be (and in the Anglican Ch., still is) celebrated on Sunday before Whitsunday.

A link: oremus.org/hymnal/o/o304.html
 
dcana said:
I’m curious to see how many of you all are observing the Rogation Days this year, even if privately.

Do you think Rogation Days, along with the Ember Days, should be brought back into use?
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no not unless the entire Roman calendar is restored ot 1962, which I doubt will happen.
 
yea they should be brought back. I do when I remember but I do forget. so I hit about half of them.
 
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