Pancake Day!

Shrove Tuesday is coming quickly, and with it, the end of Ordinary Time -- until after Easter, anyway.

Also known as "Pancake Day", Shrove Tuesday is the Tuesday immediately preceding Ash Wednesday.  For those countries celebrating Mardi Gras -- literally translated "Fat Tuesday" -- it's the final "carnival day", the last day for "fat eating" before the penitence, fasting and reflective forty days of Lent.

And while you're feasting -- or lying back, digesting! --  you're meant to pause to take stock, to do a self-examination of that one's wrongs, so that one can confess, repent and be shriven (absolved). 

Observed by many Christians -- but particularly in the practice of Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics -- Shrove Tuesday is a day of preparation for Lent, when believers are to consider their faith journeys, areas in which they want to grow spiritually, and then to ask God's help with this task.

Consuming pancakes is the ideal way to get rid of all that fat and sugar in one's larder -- and folks in the Lacombe area, including parishioners here at St. Cyprian's, are invited to join the community for these delectable delights

At the Annual Pancake Supper!

St. Andrew's United Church

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m.

Admission:

Adults: $7.00

Children 6 - 12: $6.00

Special Family Rate: MAX $20.00