Join in the fun and celebrate Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday is the last chance for some culinary indulgence and an opportunity to use up the food which ought not to be eaten during Lent.
TUESDAY, February 21 is Shrove Tuesday, better known as ‘pancake day’, when Christians the world over typically enjoy a meal of sweet or savoury pancakes – before the fasting of Lent.
Typically, Shrove Tuesday – the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent – is the last chance for some culinary indulgence and an opportunity to use up the food which ought not to be eaten during Lent. Notionally, this includes sugar, eggs, fat and milk – considered a luxury in times gone by. This is why cream buns, sweet bread, crumpet and pancakes are indulged in on Shrove Tuesday.
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The feast of Shrove Tuesday marks the pre-cursor to Lent and the end of the liturgical season of ‘Shrovetide’. The 40 days of Lent is a time of reflection and fasting, starting with Ash Wednesday and leading up to Easter where Christians mourn the death of Jesus and rejoice in His rising from the dead.
Musgrave Methodist Church will join churches across the world in celebrating Shrove Tuesday. One can enjoy a pancake and a cup of coffee in the church garden in the shade of the trees, between 08:30 and 09:30 on Tuesday morning, February 21.
The coffee and pancakes are an add-on to the usual Tuesday morning sandwich collection, whereby parishioners and the public bring wrapped sandwiches to the church to be gifted to the Denis Hurley Centre which then distributes the sandwiches to the city’s homeless, unemployed and vulnerable.
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Musgrave Methodist Church is also holding an after-work pancake celebration on Tuesday 21 February – from 16:30 until 17:30. The church’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) starts at 17:30, and the pancake celebration will take place in the church hall beforehand.
Good to Know:
- A pancake and a cup of coffee/tea will cost R20. Cash only.
- Takeaway containers will be available to take pancakes home.
- There is on-site parking in front of the church hall or on the adjoining Musgrave and St Thomas roads.
For more information, contact the church office on 031 201 2005.
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