On 2/21/2012 1:59 PM, sf wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:42:36 -0800 (PST), ItsJoanNotJoann
> > wrote:
>
>> On Feb 21, 8:46 am, James > wrote:
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>> I had to look up Shrove Tuesday. Being protestant Lent, Ash
>> Wednesday, nor Shrove Tuesday was or is observed because it's not
>> biblical.
>
> There was a church supper on Maundy Thursday at the Congregational
> church of my childhood and I think it was sometime during lent that we
> took our once a year communion. Maybe it was on Easter Sunday, I
> forget. I only remember that we drank grape juice (which always
> disappointed me, because I knew that Catholics got to drink wine), we
> did it together as a group, bread was passed in a basket and there
> were little glass holders built into the pews to hold the glasses when
> they weren't being used for communion.
>
"Shrove Tuesday" is the traditional English name for the day called
"Mardi Gras" (fat Tuesday) and "Carneval" (goodbye to meat) in other
countries and is not exclusively Catholic. When I was a kid we called it
"Pancake Tuesday" anyway. I think a season of fasting has biblical roots
in the Old and New Testaments, not necessarily coincident with Lent. In
medieval times, Lent in some ways made a virtue of a necessity for many
people because the food was running low.

--
Jim Silverton

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