Re: Shrove Tuesday

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 22:52:32 -0500, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

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.

Being from a Polish background, you might be referring to Catholics?
Although Anglicans are confused Cathostants, so maybe them too.

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Bruce
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