REMINDER: Take a loaf of bread to your landlord!
August 1, 2015 - Happy Lammas Day!
This day still is known in English-speaking countries as Lammas
Day, or loaf-mass day. This was the festival of the first wheat
harvest of the year, on which day it was customary to bring to church a loaf
made from the new crop.
In many parts of England, tenants were bound to present freshly
harvested wheat to their landlords on or before the first day of August. In the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is referred to regularly, it is called "the
feast of first fruits." The blessing of new fruits was performed
annually in both the Eastern and Western Churches on the first, or alternately
the sixth (Transfiguration), of August. The Sacramentary of Pope Gregory I (d.
604) specifies the sixth.
Excerpted from The
Stations of the Sun, Ronald Hutton, Oxford 1996
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