...fall this coming week on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. You can read some more about these special days of penitence, fasting, and prayer in The Treasury of Daily Prayer, p. 21. The Brotherhood Prayer Book supplies the following propers:
Ember Wednesday:
Morning Prayer - Matthew 12:38-50
Evening Prayer - 1 Kings 19:3-8
V. God shall give His angels charge over thee.
R. To keep thee in all thy ways.
Antiphon for Benedictus:
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.
Antiphon for Magnificat:
For as Jonas was three days and nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be in the earth.
Collect:
We beseech Thee O Lord that Thou wouldest graciously hear our prayers, and stretch forth the right hand of Thy majesty to be our defence against all adversities; through Jesus Christ...
Ember Friday:
Morning Prayer - John 5:1-15
Evening Prayer - Ezekiel 18:20-28
V. God shall give His angels charge over thee.
R. To keep thee in all thy ways.
Antiphon for Benedictus:
An angel of the Lord went down from heaven and troubled the waters; and whosoever did step therein was made whole.
Antiphon for Magnificat:
He that me whole, the same said unto me: Take up thy bed and go in peace.
Collect:
We beseech Thee, O Lord: mercifully to have compassion on Thy people, that they, which by Thee are enabled to serve Thee, may ever be comforted by Thy gracious and ready help; through Jesus Christ...
Ember Saturday:
Morning Prayer - Matthew 17:1-9
Evening Prayer - 1 Thessalonians 5:14-23
V. God shall give His angels charge over thee.
R. To keep thee in all thy ways.
Antiphon for Benedictus:
And Jesus taketh his disciples, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart: and was transfigured before them.
Antiphon for Magnificat:
Tell the vision which ye have seen to no man: until the Son of Man be risen again from the dead.
Collect:
We beseech Thee O Lord: graciously to hear the prayers of Thy people, and of Thy great goodness turn aside from them the scourges of Thine anger; through Jesus Christ...
Pastor,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the Heads Up!
Does any one remember or has any one ever heard of a Perkins-like chain of restaurants called Embers? Maybe it was a Minnesota thing. Reason I ask is, every time PW posts an Ember Days thing, their old tag-line comes to mind -- Remember the Embers.
ReplyDeleteA little easier than:
Fasting days and emberings be,
Lent, Whitsun, Holyrood and Lucie.
Our Vatican II For Lutherans crowd may not be on board -- Vatican II did away with Ember Days, leaving it up to local ordinaries.