How the September Ember Days echo Israel’s holiest feasts
The Church sanctified Israel’s cycle of feasts, fulfilled in Christ and remembered in the Ember Days of September.
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Articles tagged Ember Days
This is Ember Week, a chance to sanctify time and do penance
The Ember Days, which come around four times a year, give us a chance to reflect on our lives, do penance, and sanctify the world.
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How secularism stole Christmas and what you can do about it
Many secular customs have become so commonplace that even the most faithful Catholics fail to recognize them as a slow ebbing away of the true meaning of Christmas.
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The Advent Ember Days are the antidote to the fake, secular Christmas: here’s why
The world relentlessly anticipates its fake Christmas throughout December, insisting that we join in—and the Advent Ember Days offer an antidote.
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Ember Week special: ‘Some demons are only cast out by prayer and fasting’
In the traditional Roman calendar, this week, the third week of Advent, is an 'Ember Week,' and Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are traditionally days called 'the Ember Days.'
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How the 1960s reformers treated the liturgy like mechanics putting car parts together
There are multiple reasons for the mania, but they converge on one thing: the triumph of rational method and its (attempted) application to every domain of human life.
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