What is the name of the days on the Roman Catholic and Anglican calendars that are the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension Day?
Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite (September 14), which is between the liturgical third and fourth Sundays of September. 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 (or Greater Litanies), coinciding with St. Mark's Day (but transferred to the following Tuesday if they fell on Easter); and the three days preceding Ascension Thursday, the Minor Rogations (or Lesser Litanies). These are indicated below in the main body of the calendar and in the Movable Feasts section. In early times, every feast had a vigil, but
Ember days for Ember Days and Rogation days: They may appear in some calendars as "days of prayer for peace". They were made optional by churches of the Anglican Communion in 1976. In the Episcopal Church, the September Ember Days are still (optionally) observed on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after Holy Cross Day, so that if September 14 is a Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday, the Ember Days fall on the following Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (in the second week of September) whereas they fall a week later (in the third week of September) for the Roman Catholic Church. Some Lutheran church