Days of Rogations

The days of Rogations are the three days preceding immediately the Ascension in the liturgical calendar Christian. This term is especially used by the Église S catholic and Anglican, but fall today in disuse. The word “Rogation” comes from the Latin rogare , which means “to require”. This term is used to qualify this period of the year because the Évangile of previous Sunday includes/understands the passage “require what will want and that will be granted to you” (Jean 16:7). This Sunday itself was called Sunday of Rogations . This day marked, before the Concile the Vatican II, beginning the one three weeks period during which the celebration of the Mariage S was prohibited by the Churches catholic and Anglican.

The faithful ones traditionally observed during Rogations a Jeûne in order to prepare with the celebration of the Rise and the priest S blessed the cultures. This festival, introduced by Holy Mamert in 470 into the valley of the Rhone, is extended to all Gaulle at the time of the council of Orleans (511). At that time, the rogations took the place, in the calendar, of the Roman festival of the robigalia , celebrations pertaining to worship for the protection of the cereals against the rust which were held the 6th day before the Calendes of May. The account of the institution of Mamert Saint is known to us by a Homélie of Saint Avit, successor of Mamert to the head of évêché. However, it is shown for the moment only the rite itself echoed former pagan practices.

At the time of the catholic liturgical reform in 1969, new the Calendarium romanum maintained the prayers of Rogations, but by specifying that they could not be celebrated at the same date on all the ground. It gave task to the Episcopal conferences to fix “the discipline of it” (to date, the French Episcopal conference did not fix anything). The Churches Anglicans removed Rogations in 1976.

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