But What The Hell - Let's Party!!!
Today - Tuesday, Feb. 21st, 2012, we will celebrate Fat Tuesday. Fat Tuesday is the final day of Mardi Gras Festivities known as Carnival. Mardi Gras is celebrated in predominately Catholic locations around the world, with such famous cities like Mobile, New Orleans and Rio de Jainaro. Although all these festivities are best known for parties, costumes and beads, Mardi Gras has deep religious origins in the Catholic Calender as well as in pre-Christion Pagan Celebrations.
Came Vale, is the Latin root of the word Carnival, which means "Farewell To Meat". Which is the reference to the upcoming 40 day fast of Lent that commences at Midnight on the Eve of Ash Wednesday. Fat Tuesday was named due to the fact that it was a time of extravagant feasting of rich foods, such as. meat and pancakes before the upcoming fast.
Shrove Tuesday, a reference to "shriving" or confession, is another name for Fat Tuesday. Which was meant to prepare Christians for the fast ahead. In fact, some communities use Shrove Tuesday to burn palm fronds from the precious year's Palm Sunday to create the ashes that are used on Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday is the fist day of the season of penitance and fasting that leads to Good Friday and Easter. Ash Wednesday is a solemn observance when many Christians receive ashes on the foreheads and are reminded that
"they are dust and to dust they shall return."
Now What Are You Giving Up For Lent???
Cindy Lou...
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