Ember days

With Ember (from Latin ieiunia quattuor temporum, four fasts ) is called four times a year takes place, originally with fasting, prayer and almsgiving excellent days of penance in the church year. Your scheduling roughly coincides with the beginning of the four seasons. The Ember Wednesday, Friday and Saturday have their own Meßformulare; they have a number of special features, such as in regard to the selection and the number of pericopes.

The liturgical celebration of Ember generally ended with the celebration of Vigil ( Quatembervigil ) on Quatembersamstag than one type Vigil Mass for Sunday with several long scripture readings.

Originally Quatember were celebrated in the week after the following Sundays and festivals:

Because of this temporal fixation of the old memory verse was: "After Ash ( Ash Wednesday ), Pentecost, Cross, Luzei ( St. Lucy ) remember that Ember is. " Origin of Quatemberfeier is Rome, where she introduced probably Callistus I ( † 222) and where has since Gelasius I. at the end of this Lenten weeks, the harriers will be donated ( cf. CIC c. 1006 § 2 of 1917). Already in the time of Leo I. the Quatember were firmly established in Rome; by Pope Leo I. several Quatemberpredigten have survived.

Since the Synod of 1028, the Blessed City Ember were fast and abstinence days. The liturgical reform in the wake of the Second Vatican Council has retained the celebration of Ember and leave their detailed scheduling and configuration of the individual Bishops' Conferences. The German Bishops' Conference decided in 1972 that the Quatember to be held on the following dates in the future:

The Ember are no more fast days, but should serve the spiritual renewal of the communities. It is to be prayed in the communities especially for vocations and also the corresponding spiritual concerns of Catholic aid agencies ( Misereor, Renovabis, Missio, Adveniat ) are included in the intercessions.

Folklore

In the Lüneburg Heath there was the peasant rule: " Where the wind Quatember herkummt, blifft he s Veddeljohr stähn " ( Where the wind to Quatember comes from, since it remains for three months standing )