Please join us for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Feast hosted by 6 wonderful men from the congregation under the leadership of Tony Irving and Gary Grewell!

Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the ritual of shriving, when the faithful confessed their sins to the local priest and received forgiveness before the Lenten season began.  As far back as 1000 AD, "to shrive" meant to hear confessions. Historically, Shrove Tuesday also marked the beginning of the 40-day Lenten fasting period when the faithful were forbidden by the church to consume meat, butter, eggs or milk. However, if a family had a store of these foods they all would go bad by the time the fast ended on Easter Sunday. What to do? Solution: use up the milk, butter and eggs no later than Shrove Tuesday. And so, with the addition of a little flour, the solution quickly presented itself in... pancakes. And lots of 'em.

Today, the Shrove Tuesday pancake tradition lives on at St. Benedict’s. Join us on Tuesday, February 24th from 5:30-7:15pm for yummy pancakes and great fellowship. We will conclude the evening with compline.