Join us on Tuesday 5th March in the Church courtyard
from 3:45pm for a BBQ pancake party
Shrove comes from the word ‘shrive’ meaning ‘to confess and receive absolution’ and was intended to be a time of repentance and self-examination in preparation for Easter. Shrove Tuesday popularly became associated with cleaning out your pantry of meats, fats, eggs, and milk, in readiness to fast for Lent, and so it became a feast day for indulging and gorging, sometimes called Pancake Day, in France it was known as ‘Fat Tuesday’ or Mardi Gras.