So today is Shrove Tuesday - a day to eat pancakes. In some places there are Mardi Gras celebrations. This translates as Fat Tuesday - a day to eat up the eggs and butter and other goodies before the Lenten fast starts.
Then tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. The ashes are made by burning the palm branches from last year’s Palm Sunday service.
This past Sunday we said farewell to Alleluia until Easter. It was also the last Sunday to have flowers until Easter. There were some very nice tulips which spoke of spring.
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I will not be eating any pancakes this year.
Tomorrow I will return to the Wednesday morning service that I have been missing during the bus strike. My local bus is still not running early in the morning so I will have to drive and park my car close to a bus route. This will be my first time on a bus since December 5th.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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I've recently listened to the 14 musical compositions based on the Stabat Mater text which are available at the Ottawa Public Library.
Vivaldi, Szymanowski, Godar, Dvorak, Part, Rossini, Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Palestrina, Escobar, Poulenc, Haydn, Jenkins.
There are many others.
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