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The last day before Lent begins!

Eat up all the meat products.........hehehe.

Shrive!

1 posted on 02/23/2004 10:53:47 PM PST by Salvation
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2 posted on 02/23/2004 10:55:21 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
I've never observed Lent traditionally. This will be my first real year in doing so. We will be giving up meat. This is going to be hard. I pray I have the grace to remember at all times what my little sacrifice represents.

OTOH, I briefly considered giving up rutabagas, but that didn't go over so well with the better half.
4 posted on 02/23/2004 11:27:23 PM PST by kenth (Got Hoof?)
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To: Salvation
Yesterday, Collop Monday, we had eggs and bacon. Today, Shrove Tuesday, we have lots of pancakes. Hmm. Hmm.

Getting ready to be shriven.
9 posted on 02/24/2004 3:54:32 AM PST by Smocker
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To: Salvation
The custom of making pancakes comes from the need to use up fat, eggs and dairy before the fasting and abstinence of Lent begins

I'd never head of that before I came up North and our Parish began alternating hosting a Shrove Tuesday Dinner with a local Episcopal church. I'd always attended Mardi Gras in New Orleans, since we lived two hours from the city, but I'd never heard of the using up the eggs, oil and dairy products thing. We ate a lot of pancakes and dairy products during Lent, when I was growing up, because we didn't eat Meat on Fridays!

We had the Shrove Dinner last night at our Parish; Pancakes and Sausage or Jambalaya. It was VEY good!

20 posted on 02/25/2004 11:12:22 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Salvation

Lent starts tomorrow!


24 posted on 02/08/2005 7:02:42 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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BTTT on Shrove Tuesday. Are all your sins shriven?


27 posted on 02/28/2006 7:30:46 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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I never heard it called "Shrove Tuesday" until we moved to MA, and that was where I first learned about the pancake thing. It was always just Mardi Gras, when, growing up in MS, my Aunt used to take my sister and me along with her 7 kids to New Orleans every year. When we were younger, we'd go on Sunday, but when we were in high school, we started going on Fat Tuesday.

I think the first Mardi Gras parade in the US was held in Mobile, AL.

50 posted on 02/28/2006 8:40:53 AM PST by SuziQ
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Why You Should Celebrate Lent
62 posted on 03/01/2006 9:57:21 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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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)

64 posted on 02/03/2008 6:30:14 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Ping for reference


65 posted on 02/20/2008 9:40:47 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time." - Amos 5:13)
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