Autumnal Ember Days

                                                                                   Psalm 119:76a

Let your loving-kindness be my comfort

Emnber Days are a series of  3 days throughout the Church year,  specifically Wednesday  Friday and Saturday, set aside to pray for the ministry of the church:  See BCP Page 256-7 for the collects for each day.  Wednesday’ s focus is  For Those to Be Ordained. Friday, For the Choice of Fit Persons for the Ministry. And the last in this 1979 Prayer Book gives witness to the broadening of the idea of ministry to include not just those who are ordained,  but the 99%, lay people, For All Christians in their Vocations. 

All this to get to what I wanted to say, which is that today begins the Autumnal Ember Days, the key word being Autumnal. Regardless of the weather or our hearts clinging to Summer, Autumn Equinox comes this year on 

September 22, 4:44 P.M. EDT

Fall officially begins and the days continue to shorten. I love Fall, but it is a bittersweet time: the year, which was waxing is now waining ; always a bittersweet time....