According to The Geneva School Roundtable

Shrove Tuesday:
A pious Christian tradition of at least 1000 years, Shrove Tuesday summons the faithful to prepare themselves both in body and in soul for the 40-day penitential season of Lent that begins the following day, Ash Wednesday.

Deriving its name from the Anglo-Saxon scrifan, meaning “to write” or “to prescribe,” Shrove Tuesday called Christians to initiate the special period of Lenten discipline by availing themselves of the godly admonition and sage counsel of pastors and divines, who served them under God as physicians of the soul.

Later, the devotional practices of Shrove Tuesday developed other, more “bodily” traditions,in keeping with Christians’ understanding of the sacramental principle—outward and visible signs representing inward and spiritual realities. In order to demonstrate reflectively in the flesh their Lenten tempering of soul, many Christians began on the day immediately prior to Ash Wednesday—called “Fat Tuesday” by many—to rid their homes of eggs, butter, and other fats and oils, often by means of pancake-frying, in like fashion to their having already rid their consciences (by way of confession of sin to God) of all that would “weigh down” their loving service to Christ.

While Shrove Tuesday will likely never garner the spiritual attention paid its next-day neighbor, it will continue to remind many with ears to hear that we Christians must “lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and…run with patience the race that is set before us.”

In honor of this tradition, then, and in order that interested students and families might begin well and specially this year’s season of Lent, the Roundtable will host a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper in the gym, 6:30-8p, February 20, with a short chapel to follow, 8-8:30.

The cost is $2 per person to cover food, and we ask for your RSVPs to Mrs Deb
Scholz at the front desk by this Friday, the 15th.--Fulmer, Ludwig, Schutz