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Rogation Days - Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday before Ascension Thursday.

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Material adapted or cited verbatim from: The Catholic Encyclopædia Wikipedia Fish Eaters The Litany (p.1061: Divine Worship: the Missal) Antiphon 19.2 (2015) 116–131 A Missal for the Ordinariates: The Work of the Anglicanae Traditiones Interdicasterial Commission, by Steven J. Lopes; p. 129-130. - - - Rogation days are days of prayer, and formerly also of fasting, instituted by the Church to appease God's anger at man's transgressions, to ask protection in calamities, and to obtain a good and bountiful harvest, known in England as "Gang Days" and "Cross Week", and in Germany as Bittage, Bittwoche, Kreuzwoche. Rogation days are observed with processions and the Litany. The word rogation comes from the Latin verb rogare , meaning "to ask", which reflects the beseeching of God. The Minor Rogation Days are of French origin, coming about in the 5th c., when St. Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne, Dauphiné instituted them after a series of...
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