Rorate Caeli has a very good article by Michael Foley explaining what those of us who didn’t know should have known about the ember days:
A potential danger of traditionalism is the stubborn defense of something about which one knows little. I once asked a priest who had just finished beautifully celebrating an Ember Saturday Mass about the meaning of the Ember days. He replied (with an impish twinkle in his eye) that he hadn’t a clue, but he was furious they had been suppressed. Read full article here.
