[missyme]

Unforunatley "Mardi Gras" is like and event out of "Soddom and Gommorrah now in New Orleans...

[The_Reader_David]

Of course in the East, we don't try to eat up all the non-Lenten food in a single blow-out before the Fast: we get a week with no fasting after the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican (so we can't boast of fasting twice a week every week), then an ordinary week with Wednesday and Friday fasts, then 'Cheesefare Week' when only meat is off limits in the food department, and then Lent begins on Pure Monday. (With clean faces as Christ counseled.)

Of course, post-Vatican-II, Mardi Gras or Carnivale is a kind of pointless party isn't it?

[LiteKeeper]

For what it is worth - there is no Scriptural justification for Mardi Gras or Lent. These are emmendations by the Roman Catholic Church.

Isn't interesting that the Apostle Paul warned against celebrating days and seasons in his letter to the Colossians, yet this is exactly what the RC does...not just with Lent, but with almost daily feast days?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

In Louisiana, bakers now put a small baby, representing the Christ Child, in the cake;

Ack!

I presume they mean a figurine of a baby

[RckyRaCoCo]

Fat Tuesday in Detroit area

mmmmmmmmmmm...Paczki(pronounced POONCH-ki”)Day