Shrove Tuesday

We’ll hold our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper from 5:30-7:00 pm Tuesday, February 21, in Harvard Hall. Come for pancakes with all the toppings, bacon and sausage, and King Cake. (That’s a New Orleans tradition, where Shrove Tuesday is celebrated as Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. Watch out for the pink plastic baby hidden in each cake. If your slice of cake contains one of the babies, it means you’re the king or queen and you can expect a year of luck and prosperity.)

Then we’ll burn the palms — the palm crosses and fronds we received last year on Palm Sunday — to make the ashes that the clergy will use the next day, Ash Wednesday, as they make the sign of the cross on our foreheads and remind us that we are dust. The Altar Guild has a basket in the narthex where you can deposit your crosses from last year for the burning.