Ember days
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 An Ymber Day Tart, cooked by following a medieval English recipe from the book Forme of Cury, a Middle English cook book stored in John Rylands Library. The recipe was originally made for King Richard II |
In the liturgical calendar of the Western Christian churches, Ember days are four separate sets of three days within the same week — specifically, the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday — roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, that were formerly set aside for fasting and prayer. These days set apart for special prayer and fasting were considered especially suitable for the ordination of clergy. The Ember Days are known in Latin as the quattuor anni tempora (the "four seasons of the year"), or formerly as the jejunia quattuor temporum ("fasts of the four seasons").
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- Related: Rogation days, Perchta, Quarter days, Cross-quarter day
| Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 32.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EM/EMBER_DAYS.htm - Web |
| Readings and Litanies for the Ember Days Readings and Litanies for the Ember Days www.liturgies.net/Ember/emberdays.htm - Web |
| Medieval Sourcebook: The Golden Legend Medieval Sourcebook: The Golden Legend www.fordham.edu/.../GL-vol1-emberdays.html - Web |
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| William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D, A Dictionary of Greek... William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875. penelope.uchicago.edu/.../Feriae.html - Web |
