This past Ember Wednesday,
a young boy asked me, “What are Ember Days?”
I hemmed and hawed a bit
in my answer, saying I once studied the subject but forgot a lot, but that
ordinations to the ministry are an emphasis of Ember Days.
His commendable patience
being tried by my efforts, he replied, “It’s okay to say you don’t know.”
I suspect I am not the
only one who doesn’t know. So to
be helpful I point my inquisitive readers to a fine essay I came across last
night but written a few years ago, “The Glow of Ember Days” by Michael P. Foley. Another essay by Frank Weathers may be
also be helpful.
I will say that there is
still some scholarly dispute about the origin of Ember Days. So the counsel of the boy was wise.
May you have a Blessed
Ember Friday and Saturday.
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