[Salvation]

For your contemplation and discussion.

[mckenzie7]

Thank you!

[cizinec]

Silly Latins. Lent begins after Cheesefare, when there are snowball fights, blintzes and sleigh rides.

I’m not sure why the Latins go so crazy before a season where they still consume everything, except eat fish on Friday.

[Tax-chick]

Is it? We’re too tired to notice. Pseudo-Lent, when you sit in the rocker with your eyes closed and say, “Oh, just get yourselves some toast. Maybe I’ll buy groceries tomorrow.”

[Augustinian monk]

“As Catholics (and other Christians who practice Lent), we must partially blame ourselves for allowing this holy time of year to be overshadowed by a drunken, over-indulgent, high-jacking of our own celebration”

As someone who grew up near the NO area, “overshadowed” is a huge understatement.

[Salvation]

The Day After Fat Tuesday [Ash Wednesday, Beginning of Lent]
Ash Wednesday and the Lenten Fast-Family observance Lenten season [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]

More Protestants turn to Ash Wednesday
Being Catholic: Sacred Things, Ashes
Ash Wednesday
Where does Ash Wednesday get its ashes?
Every Ash Wednesday comes the question about ashes: to burn or to buy?

Pope will preside at Ash Wednesday Mass, procession; act will renew ancient tradition
Ash Wednesday: Preparing For Easter
Ash Wednesday: Our Shifting Understanding of Lent
Ash Wednesday

[GOP Poet]

Honestly I had no idea that Mardi Gras had anything to do with Ash Wednesday. It just meant Mardi Gras-massive party day. It is amazing how off course the world can get when it kicks God out.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The early Church, in its wisdom, evolved many of the pagan festivals and holidays existing during that time and turned them into Christian celebrations instead. This was because it was more difficult to kill existing traditions and begin new ones than it was to just change the meaning of the existing traditions.

Meanwhile, Biblical holidays (Pesach, Purim, Ro'sh HaShanah, etc.) were abolished outright and their practice proscribed as heretical "Judaizing." Jewish holidays deny Chr*st, but pagan ones are the means of "appropriating salvation."

This is another area of traditional anti-Judaism that liberal Jewish anti-Catholics, with their hang-up on persecution and blind spot for theological liberalism, never seem to bring up.

[D-fendr]

Interesting post.

Thanks..

[Catholic Canadian]

Fat Tuesday? Never heard of it called that, we generally call it pancake day.

[Mad Dawg]

Wait! There's a day after Mardi Gras?

The modern Lenten Discipline: Party 6 days a week and sleep it off on Sunday.

And time for my annual curmudgeonly remark: If people in the country observed Lent with half the enthusiasm with which they observe Mardi Gras, our nation would be renewed.

/curmudgoen off.

[Salvation]

More about Shrove Tuesday

Pre-Lenten Days -- Family activities-Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]

And so it begins - The Questions, the questions... [Shrove Tuesday]

On Pancakes

Mardi Gras' Catholic Roots [Shrove Tuesday]

New Orleans: A Tale of Two Cities (Rosary Walk Before Mardi Gras)

[borntobeagle]

Thank you for posting this. My husband and I were discussing Mardi Gras last night, and failed to see what the attraction was. Now, knowing that it has some root in Christianity gives me a sense of understanding.

I grew up around a lot of catholics, and always loved the Friday Fish Fries, but never had any knowledge other than it was a great bonus for those of us who did not participate in Lent.

Have most Catholics strayed from the Friday Fish Fries? I don't see them offered at the local restaurants like I did as a kid (of course I'm living in a strong Baptist area now, so maybe that's the difference).