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.
>

That's sounds just like the Congregational Church of my childhood in
Massachusetts. Maundy Thursday (meaning Holy Thursday) was the evening
service on the Thursday before Good Friday that commemorated the Last
Supper. It was a very solemn service with communion as you described.

Rusty in MD