rogation

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This method of celebrating the Rogation Days still prevails in many parishes in England.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

Doubtless an abbreviation of the whole psalm, which stood at the beginning of the 3rd Rogation Litany.

From The Prayer Book Explained by Jackson, Percival

The Litania Major is St. Mark's day, and the Litania Minor is for the Rogation time, or the three days preceding the feast of the Ascension, by the Anglo-Saxons called Gang-days.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

Quinquagesima / \ seven / Quadragesima | | six | Rogation Sunday | | five weeks | Ascension-day \ is / forty days \ after Easter.

From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

Four "Tables of Lessons" are given—for Sundays, for Holy-Days, for the forty days of Lent and the Rogation and Ember-Days, and for all the days of the year not otherwise provided for.

From The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness by Regester, J. A. (Jacob Asbury)