Saturday of Whit Embertide

Please keep Saturday of Whit Embertide with fellow Catholics by fasting and abstaining from meat.  Also, please pray for the newly ordained, and for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

Friday of Whit Embertide

Please keep Friday of Whit Embertide with fellow Catholics by fasting and abstaining from meat (which you were probably doing anyway, since it's Friday.)  Also, please pray for the newly ordained, and for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

A call to restore the Octave of Pentecost and Ember Days

From New Liturgical Movement.  

Tomorrow is the second of the three days of Whit Embertide.  Please join with other Catholics in fasting and abstaining from meat.  Also please join in praying for the newly ordained, and for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

Whit Embertide arriveth

The first of the three days of Whit Embertide is tomorrow.  The second day of Whit Embertide is Friday, and the third is Saturday.  More here.

This Whit Embertide, please join me and many other Catholics in fasting and abstaining from meat.  Let's also pray for the newly ordained, as well as for an increase in priestly vocations and vocations to religious life.

Whit Embertide Approacheth

                                        

                            "Summer" by Abel Grimmer

The following is adapted from fisheaters.com (more here):

Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after Pentecost Sunday, (this year - June 15, 17 and 18), are known as "Whit Embertide."  Ember Days are a favorable time for priestly ordinations, prayer for priests, first Communions, almsgiving and other penitential and charitable acts, and prayer for the souls in Purgatory.   According to medieval lore, during Embertide, the souls in Purgatory are allowed to appear visibly to those on earth who pray for them.
Embertides are also traditional times for women to pray for children and safe deliveries.

Also according to folklore, the weather conditions of each of the three days of an Embertide foretells the weather of the next three months.  Thus, the weather of Wednesday of Whit Embertide foretells the weather of July, Friday foretells the weather of August, and Saturday foretells the weather of September.

Catholics are no longer obliged to fast and abstain from meat during Embertides, but neither are they prohibited from doing so.   I say, try it and see.