Your help is like syrup on a pancake - essential and oh-so-sweet! We need supplies, food and workers for our annual "Shrove Tuesday & Pancake Supper" which is Tuesday is Feb. 13, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Your help is greatly appreciated! Please sign up HERE and thank you for your willingness to serve!
We will have to-go boxes available for those who wish to use them. The meal will cost $8 per person or $25 per family, and all proceeds will benefit our youth programs.
Please bring all supplies to the Great Hall by Sunday, February 11. We will have a bin for placing dry goods in and space in the fridge for storing perishables.
Thank you for your support of All Saints Youth Ministries!
Burning of Palms:
If you have saved any palms from last year, please bring them this evening. After dinner, we will burn last year's palms to use in our Ash Wednesday service.
More about this evening:
Shrove Tuesday, also know as "Pancake Tuesday" or "Pancake Day" is the final day before the 40-day period of Lent begins. Its name comes from the Germanic-Old English word “shrive,” meaning absolve, and it is the last day of the liturgical season historically known as Shrovetide. Because it comes directly before Lent, a season of fasting and penitence, this was the day that Christians would go to be “shriven” by their confessor. Shrove Tuesday also became a day for pre-fasting indulgence. In particular, the need to use up rich ingredients such as butter, milk, sugar and eggs before Lent gave rise to the tradition of eating pancakes on this day.
On Shrove Tuesday, we also burn the palms distributed during the previous year's Palm Sunday liturgies to make the ashes used during the services held on the very next day, Ash Wednesday, February 14.
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