Ember Wednesday After Pentecost.

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Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

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Ember Wednesday After Pentecost.

Station at Saint Mary Major.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Rogation Day.

Circa 1950:

The Vicar and Sunday School Children go out into the fields

to Bless The Crops. The little boy is carrying a symbolic Tree of Plenty.

Picture Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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“FORTITUDE”.

“The Gift of Fortitude is a permanent power which The Holy Ghost communicates to our Will to assist us in overcoming the difficulties which might deter us in the practice of what is right.”

[Rev. M. Meschler.]

The Ember Days always fall during The Octave of Pentecost. The Church then offers up to God the first-fruits of the new Season, and Prays for the Priests who, on the coming Saturday, are about to receive The Holy Ghost in The Sacrament of Holy Orders.

The Station on Ember Wednesday was always held at Saint Mary Major. It was at the feet of The Blessed Virgin, whom The Holy Ghost filled with His Grace in The Cenacle, that the newly-Baptised gathered together.

The Liturgy reminded them of the Miracle of Pentecost (Lesson) and the marvels wrought by The Apostles, as a result of which the number of those who believed in The Lord was greatly increased (Epistle).

Moved by The Holy Ghost, The Catechumens also believed in Jesus: They turned to Him, and Jesus gave them to eat of The Bread that would make them live for ever (Gospel).

Let us implore The Divine Consoler to enlighten us always more and more and to place us in full possession of The Truth (Collect).

Mass: Deus, dum egrederéris.

Sequence: Veni, Sancte Spiritus.

Creed.

Preface: For Pentecost.

Communicantes: For Pentecost.

Hanc igitur: For Pentecost.

Illustration: MATER DEI LATIN MASS PARISH

Ember Day Service.
1950.

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Sunday School Children Celebrate Rogation Day in 1953.
A photo at Market Lavington Museum, Wiltshire, England.
Illustration: MARKET LAVINGTON MUSEUM

Saint Michael's Church, Bunwell, Norfolk, England, has always been the centre of Village Life. In this picture, taken on Rogation Sunday, April 1967, the Rector, Rev. Samuel Collins, followed by the Choir, Parishioners, and The New Buckenham Silver Band, walk The Parish Boundaries and Bless the Stream.
Illustration: BUNWELL HERITAGE GROUP