Fat Tuesday I get what with all the pre-Lent partying. However, where does Shrove Tuesday come from? Found this in something called the Catholic encyclopedia: The English term “shrovetide” (from “to shrive”, or hear confessions) is sufficiently explained by a sentence in the Anglo-Saxon “Ecclesiastical Institutes” translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000: “In the weekContinue reading “Pancakes Tonight”