Similar to Lent, but on a smaller scale, the Ember Days offer us a time of spiritual renewal, a chance to reset and refocus our priorities.
Wednesday // Christ’s betrayal by Judas.Three Days of Fasting, Four Times Per YearĮach set of Ember Days includes three days of fasting-Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday-in remembrance of Christ’s Passion. Fall // after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.Summer // between Pentecost and Trinity Sundays.Spring // between the first and second Sundays of Lent.Winter // between the third and fourth Sundays of Advent.And the current format for Ember Days was prescribed by Pope Gregory VII, in the 11th century. By the fourth century, a fourth fast was added. Zechariah 8:19įrom the Latin quatuor tempora, which means "four times," Ember Days date back to the third century when Pope Callixtus instituted a Church-wide fast for plentiful harvests three times per year. Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah: therefore love truth and peace. Ember Days are rooted in the Old Testament tradition of fasting four times per year: The Ember Days are a time-honored practice of penitential prayer that take place four times per year, in conjunction with the four natural seasons.
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We want our souls to be free and welcoming so we can enter Christmas wholly devoted to adoring Baby Jesus.Īdvent’s Ember Days offer a simple, practical, and spiritual plan to clear the clutter of our hearts, minds, and homes, in order to renew our focus on Christ’s coming this Christmas. If we pause to think of the Nativity scene and the simple manger, open and ready to receive the miracle of the Incarnation, we want our hearts to mirror that manger. This gives us the opportunity to release the physical, mental, and emotional clutter in our lives in order to arrive on that Holy Night ready to receive the Newborn King. Traditionally, Advent includes an element of penance, a fast before the feast of Christmas. The season of Advent has only just begun, and before we get caught up in the swirling frenzy of the holiday rush, let’s choose to live Advent the way it is intended: In order to receive Him, the song implies that our hearts must first “prepare Him room.”īut how do we truly ready ourselves for the Nativity of Jesus? How do we prepare Him room? How do we create space in the manger of our hearts for the Newborn King to rest His sweet head? Choose Advent The beloved hymn, Joy to the World, invites the world to “receive her King” on Christmas Day.
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