Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper March 4
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 March 4, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Your help is greatly appreciated!
DONATE SUPPLIES/VOLUNTEER HERE. Please bring all supplies to the Great Hall - DEADLINE SUNDAY March 3.
The meal will cost $8 per person or $30 per family, and all proceeds will benefit our youth programs.
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.
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