Shrove Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015 
During the week before Lent, sometimes called Shrovetide in English, Christians were expected to go to confession in preparation for the penitential season of turning to God.
Shrove Tuesday was the last day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, and noted in histories dating back to 1000 AD.This custom is a remnant of an earlier tradition in which people prepared for the Lenten fast by using up food in their homes that they would not be eating during the season of Lent.
· 5:00pm – 6:30pm Pancake Dinner in the Parish House sponsored by the ECM
By giving up dairy products, people marked Jesus’ 40 days and nights in the wilderness. So on Shrove Tuesday, stores of dairy products were used up in the pancake mix.
For more information on Shrove and Shrove Tuesday, see this link