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| Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Tuesday, February 13, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m. followed by “Making of the Ashes” |
| Join us for fellowship and pancakes – prepared by some of our men! Please let Paul Mazur know if you are planning on attending AND able to assist in the kitchen – (207) 323-2526 or [email protected] Following the pancake supper take part in a brief and poignant service of reflection and preparation for Lent as we burn last year’s Palm Sunday fronds to use for this year’s Ash Wednesday ashes.  As these palm branches are changed to ash, change us, Lord; make us new. A little background . . . Shrove is the past tense of the word shrive, which means to hear a confession and to absolve from sin. In the Middle Ages, especially in Northern Europe and England, it became the custom to confess one’s sins on the day before Lent began to enter the penitential season in the right spirit. Lent, the penitential period before Easter, has been a time of fasting and abstinence for many Christians. Some choose to abstain from all meat and items that came from animals, including butter, eggs, cheese, and fat. That is why Shrove Tuesday became known as Mardi Gras, the French term for Fat Tuesday. Over time, Mardi Gras extended from a single day to the entire period of Shrovetide, the days from the last Sunday before Lent through Shrove Tuesday. |