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The Rogation Days were highly esteemed in England and King Alfred's laws considered a theft committed on these days equal to one committed on Sunday or a higher ChurchHoly Day. The Rogation Days are the 25th of April, called Major, and the three days before the feast of the Ascension, called Minor.
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Rogation days are, in the calendar of the Western Church, four days traditionally set apart for solemn processions to invoke God's mercy. The first Rogation, the Greater Litanies, was introduced as a Christian substitute for the Roman pagan celebration Robigalia, which was a special celebration to pray for crops.
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Rogation days - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rogation days are, in the calendar of the Western Church, four days traditionally set apart for solemn processions to invoke God's mercy. They are April 25, the Major Rogation, coinciding with St.
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Readings and Collects for the Rogation Days An Urban Rogation Procession...
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Rogation Sunday: Worship Resources These rogation themes of blessing the fields and beating the bounds were commended in the 1630s by the poet George Herbert, that epitome of English country parsons.
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Definition of Rogation in an online ecyclopedia or dictionary. rogation (?), n. (L. rogatio,fr. rogare, rogatum, to ask, beg, supplicate: cf. F. rogation. Cf. Abrogate, Arrogant, Probogue.) 1. (Rom.
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Environmental Rogation Day Celebration NOTE: The Environmental Stewardship Commission is suggesting that congregations plan a Rogation Day celebration.
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The Rogation Days consist of plaintive litanies to God and the saints chanted while the faithful proceed through town and country and the priest blesses their land and property. "Rogation" is from the Latin rogare, to petition earnestly. The word "litany" comes from the Greek litaneia (lite), meaning the same thing.
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We in TandridgeChurch look forward to welcoming friends from Oxted to a short Service of the Word for Rogation Sunday on 16th May.
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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rogation \Ro*ga"tion\, {Rogation days} (Eccl.), the three days which immediately precede Ascension {Day}; -- so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication.
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