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30 July 2010 (Gregorian)	17 July 2010 (Julian)	19 Av 5770 (Hebrew)	19th day 6th month 4708 (Chinese)
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14 Aadi 107/24 Viruti (Tamil)		The Moon is Waning

YESTERDAY:
Thursday, 29 July

TODAY:
Friday, 30 July

TOMORROW:
Saturday, 31 July

Seventeenth of Tammuz (Jewish)
Shiv'ah Asar b'Tammuz (Jewish)

Rogation Days

by Frann Leach

The Sunday before Ascension Day is sometimes called Rogation Sunday, and the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are called Rogation Days (particularly the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches), although these names are rarely used today.

Devout believers traditionally fasted on these days in preparation for the Ascension and crops would be blessed.

Priests and clergy wore violet vestments for Rogation services.

The four Rogation days were also used by clergy, churchwardens, choirboys and parishioners to "beat the bounds" of the parish to ensure its protection during the coming year.

The Roman Catholic Church dropped Rogation Days from the liturgical calendar in 1970, but the call for traditional observances to be reinstated has meant that in some communities the rites are being revived. In other churches Rogation Days are optional.

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Frann ("Tiggsy") Leach is the webmistress and owner of Which Day and TheWebsiteDesign.co.uk. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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