What are the ember days?
The four seasons of the ecclesiastical year are consecrated to God, the Embers Days (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday). They are an occasion of thanking God for the blessings received during the previous season, of praying for those to be ordained, and of renewing ourselves spiritually. They are days of fast and abstinence.
The Catholic church instituted these days to thank God, each season of the year, for the benefits received during that season, and to remind the faithful, each quarter of the year, of duty of penance; also to pray to God for deserving priest, for on those days the ordination of priest usually takes place.
Traditional Catholic lesson for this Ember Day. Lesson from Holy Gospel: Luke 13, 6-17. At that time Jesus spoke to the multitude this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
And he said to the dresser of the vineyard, 'Behold for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down therefore, why cumbereth it the ground?' But he answering said to him, 'Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it and dung it. And if happily it bear fruit, but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.'" And He was teaching in their synagogue on the Sabbath. And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and she was bowed together, neither could she look upwards at all. Whom when Jesus saw, He called her unto Him, and said to her, "Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity." And He laid His hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue (being angry that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath), answering said to the multitude, "Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day." And the Lord answering him said, "Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you on the Sabbath day loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water? And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" And when He said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed, and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by Him.
Practice: This parable was a call to the Jews to do penance; that they who, as Saint Jerome says, had been warned three times through the law of Moses, through the prophets, and finally through Christ our God Himself might not at last go to destruction. At the same time it was a threat of approaching judgment. Let us learn hence to make good use of the days of God's long suffering mercy, that we may not, like the unfruitful tree, be cut down and cast into the fire.
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