What in the world is “Shrove Tuesday”? It doesn't mean "pancake".
Lent, which simply means “spring,” was preceded by “shrovetide” (hence Shrove Tuesday). The English term “shrovetide” can be explained by a sentence in the Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical Institutes translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about 1000 A.D.:
“In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do in the way of penance.”
So "shrove" is the past tense of "shrive" which means "to hear someone's confession".
The celebratory aspect of the day developed long before the Protestant Reformation, and was associated with releasing high spirits before the somber season of Lent, thus the continuing carnival tradition associated with Mardi Gras.
Let us pray: Father, keep before us the wisdom and love you have revealed in your Son. Help us to be like him in word and deed, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Lent, which simply means “spring,” was preceded by “shrovetide” (hence Shrove Tuesday). The English term “shrovetide” can be explained by a sentence in the Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical Institutes translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about 1000 A.D.:
“In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do in the way of penance.”
So "shrove" is the past tense of "shrive" which means "to hear someone's confession".
The celebratory aspect of the day developed long before the Protestant Reformation, and was associated with releasing high spirits before the somber season of Lent, thus the continuing carnival tradition associated with Mardi Gras.
Let us pray: Father, keep before us the wisdom and love you have revealed in your Son. Help us to be like him in word and deed, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
CALENDAR REMINDERS
MARDI GRAS FUN AT ST. AUGUSTINE'S on FAT TUESDAY, 8 MARCH at 6 P.M.: Welcome a new tradition at St. Augustine's for Fat Tuesday, a true Mardi Gras celebration to be inaugurated by a famous Mardi Gras King and his Queen at St. Augustine’s!
Ash Wednesday, 9 March at 7 P.M.: The Ash Wednesday Liturgy with the imposition of ashes. The ashes this year will be taken from the Palm Sunday crosses from St. James the Fisherman and given to us by Bob Newding.
Lenten Program: We will have a combined Lenten program with Grace Episcopal on Wednesday evenings as we have had in years past. It will begin with the Stations of the Cross, Eucharist, a light meal and then a teaching.
Saturday, 12 March, work day in the Community Garden.
PLEASE REMEMBER EVERYONE ON OUR PRAYER LIST, especially Roylene Lemons and Juanita Mack.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
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