Traditional Feast Days/Ember Days

[Shinywooper]

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a website/book/resources that has the old feast days that were taken out of the liturgical calendar. I was also looking for something to learn about other traditional things such as ember days and blessing of the chalk on Epiphany. I’m just curious about learning more.

Thanks!

 

[Jesuslover]

Here you go:
http://www.traditio.com/cal.htm

 

[Shinywooper]

Thanks, I also have a question about the Feast of the Espousal of Joseph and Mary. I don’t see it on that calendar, do you happen to know why?

 

[Jesuslover]

I don’t, sorry.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

The Feast of the Espousals of Joseph and Mary was a local feast. It was not on the pre-Vatican II general calendar.
It was celebrated in Spain and a few other European countries only, and I think it’s still celebrated in some of those places today.
You can certainly celebrate it yourself by saying the collect prayers for it, if you want.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I was also looking for something to learn about other traditional things such as ember days and blessing of the chalk on Epiphany.

Fisheaters was a great website for that stuff.
Unfortunately, Fisheaters has gone down in the last couple days, possibly permanently, but the good news is that Internet Archive saved all of its pages.

Here is the index page with all the links to all the archived pages:
http://web.archive.org/web/20170209190638/http://www.fisheaters.com/beingcatholic.html

Ember Days are discussed in detail under “Seasonal Customs”. Follow the links to “Embertide” pages.

Please note that sometimes Internet archive takes some time to load archived pages.

Edited to add, as of Friday morning, Fisheaters.com is back up.

 

[po18guy]

Scott Richert, a 100% solid Catholic, has short tutorials on Ember Days and many other feasts and Solemnities of the Church.

Scott P. Richert

Scott P. Richert is a writer, editor, and director of online and print publications for over 20 years, covering Catholic issues and beliefs.

www.learnreligions.com

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[Penitent60]

There is a valuable book by Sarto House publishing called “My Catholic Faith” which is a catechism in pictures and basically a manual…invaluable IMHO. At the church I attend there are a congregation who follows this, a library of useful books, in-house enquiry classes and a number of other options for plumbing the ocean of catholic history, teachings etc.