The Ember Calendar
The name “Ember Days” refers not to fiery coals, but to special days traditionally devoted to prayer, fasting, and this.
What is thanksgiving?
“Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of ___ home.”
What is harvest?
Jesus tells his disciples that the harvest is plentiful but these people are few.
Who are the laborers?
Jesus said that even this tiny seed can grow into a surprisingly large plant.
What is a mustard seed?
Psalm 107 begins, “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his” this “endures forever.”
What is mercy/steadfast love?
Each set of Ember Days consists of this number of individual days.
What is three?
“All good gifts around us are sent from ___ above.”
What is heaven?
In biblical times, this tool was commonly used to cut grain—and its curved descendant remains a symbol of harvest today.
What is a sickle?
In one of Jesus' parables, an enemy secretly sowed these unwanted plants among the wheat.
What are weeds?
In 1 Thessalonians 5, Paul tells Christians to “give thanks” in this many circumstances.
What are all circumstances?
Besides autumn, Ember Days traditionally occur during these three seasons of the year.
What are winter, spring, and summer?
“For the fruit of all creation, ___ be to God.”
What is thanks?
Jesus uses these two ordinary foods to describe himself in John's Gospel: “I am the ___ of life” and “I am the true ___.”
What are bread and vine?
Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream of seven good and seven bad ears of this crop.
What is grain/corn?
Before feeding the 5,000, Jesus took the loaves and did this before distributing them to the crowd.
What is gave thanks? (John 6:11)
The Autumn Ember Days occur shortly after this September 14 feast celebrating the cross of Christ.
What is Holy Cross Day?
“We plow the fields and scatter the good seed on the ___.”
What is land?
According to Ecclesiastes, there is “a time to plant” and a time to do this.
What is pluck up what is planted? (Ecclesiastes 3:2)
After the Flood, Noah became a man of the soil and planted one of these.
What is a vineyard?
In Luke 17, Jesus heals ten men with leprosy, but only this number returns to praise God and thank Jesus.
What is one?
In 2026, the Autumn Ember Days fall on these three September dates.
What are September 16, 18, and 19?
In “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come,” God's people are described as “God's own ___.”
What is grain?
Biblical law specifically commanded farmers not to harvest every last bit of their fields so that these two groups, among others, could gather what remained.
Who are the poor and the foreigner/stranger? (Leviticus 19:9–10)
Gideon was secretly threshing this crop in a winepress when an angel of the Lord appeared to him.
What is wheat?
Philippians 4 says that instead of worrying, we should make our requests known to God by prayer and supplication “with” this attitude.
What is thanksgiving? (Philippians 4:6)