Re: Shrove Tuesday

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 2:52:10 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-04 9:45 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 0:32:21 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
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Or as I call it... Pancake Day.  It was breakfast for dinner. I cooked
up some breakfast sandwich and some buttermilk pancakes. That's my
contribution to the religious festivities of the next 40 days.
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Protestants don't observe it as there is no spiritual
mandate.

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How Protestant? I was indoctrinated in the Anglican church and it was a
thing.  Driving around today I went by a couple Protestant churches that
had signs out for pancake dinners.
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Anglican, Lutherans, Methodists which are protestant observe
this day.  But Reform Protestants don't.