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Did You Know?
February 2010
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Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Delaplane, VA
Delaplane, VA
Shrove Tuesday is a term used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada , New Zealand , and Australia for the day preceding Ash Wednesday the first day of the Christian season of fasting and prayer called Lent . The word shrove is the past tense of the English verb shrive, which means to obtain absolution for one's sinsby way of Confession and doing penance . Thus Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the shriving that English Christians were expected to do prior to receiving absolution immediately before Lent begins. Shrove Tuesday is the last day of shrovetide , a season that developed after the Protestant Reformation. The celebratory aspect of the day is somewhat analogous to the Carnival tradition that continued separately in Catholic countries of Latin Europe
The term "Shrove Tuesday" is no longer widely known in the United States outside of people who observe liturgical traditions such as those of the Lutheran, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic Churches. Because of the increase in many immigrant populations and traditions since the 19th century, and the rise of highly publicized festivals, Mardi Gras has become more familiar as the designation for that day. In England and many other countries, the festival was widely associated with the eating of rich foods made with eggs, sugar and butter, such as pancakes It was often known simply as Pancake Day, originally because making such foods used up ingredients such as sugar, fat and eggs, whose consumption was traditionally restricted during the fasting associated with Lent.
Source: Wikipedia
The term "Shrove Tuesday" is no longer widely known in the United States outside of people who observe liturgical traditions such as those of the Lutheran, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic Churches. Because of the increase in many immigrant populations and traditions since the 19th century, and the rise of highly publicized festivals, Mardi Gras has become more familiar as the designation for that day. In England and many other countries, the festival was widely associated with the eating of rich foods made with eggs, sugar and butter, such as pancakes It was often known simply as Pancake Day, originally because making such foods used up ingredients such as sugar, fat and eggs, whose consumption was traditionally restricted during the fasting associated with Lent.
Source: Wikipedia
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