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https://catholicgentleman.com/2022/12/ember-days-101/

There are four “sets” of Ember Days during the year. Each “set” is a successive Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. They occur every year near the beginning of the four seasons.

Spring: after Ash Wednesday.
Summer: after Pentecost Sunday.
Fall: after Sept. 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Winter: after Dec. 13, the Feast of St. Lucy.

A traditional way of remembering these dates is the rhyme “Lenty, Penty, Crucy, Lucy”

https://catholicgentleman.com/2015/01/devil-hates-blessed-virgin-much-love/

Satan hates the Blessed Virgin Mary. In fact, he has been doing everything in his power to discourage devotion to her and instill hatred for her for two millennia. Have you ever noticed that it is Marian dogmas and devotions that stir the strongest reactions in those who reject the Church? Even some good Catholics are embarrassed by devotion to our Lady, and they feel we should not be too extreme in our veneration of her.

https://catholicgentleman.com/2024/05/why-cant-i-hear-god/

At the heart of man there is an innate silence, for God abides in the innermost part of every person. God is silence, and this divine silence dwells in man. In God we are inseparably bound up with silence. . . God carries us, and we live with him at every moment by keeping silence. Nothing will make us discover God better than his silence inscribed in the center of our being. If we do not cultivate this silence how can we find God?” (The Power of Silence, 22).

-Robert Cardinal Sarah