Re: Shrove Tuesday

On 3/4/2025 10:41 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-04 10:06 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

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

  For a few years we had some Dutch neighbours who ran a flower shipping business. We never heard a peep from them on Sundays. I don't know if they were at church all day or stayed in side. I was surprised to see them working on Good Friday. I thought that was like the holiest of holy days and if you can't work on Sundays you sure as dickens would not be working in the day they  hero died.
 

Going back about 6 or 7 decades, people would work but stop from 12 to 3.  Some stores would close and people would spend the time in church.