TO KEEP A TRUE LENT IS this a fast, to keep The larder lean ? And clean From fat of veals and sheep ? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish ? Is it to fast an hour, Or ragg�d to go, Or show A [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Lent: It means though you’re broken, you don’t have to buy.
Posted in Lent, tagged Lent on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Great Dust Up
Posted in Lent, tagged Ash Wednesday, Lent on February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Today millions of Christians will hear those words said to them as priest, minister, or pastor imposes ashes upon their foreheads to symbolize their repentance for their sins. For that is the discipline of Lent (from the German Lenz meaning “Spring”), repentance, as well as prayer, [...]
Carnival, Carnevale, Mardi Gras, Fasching, etc.=Eat Now, Because Tomorrow You Won’t
Posted in Carnival, tagged Carnival, Fasching, King Cake, Mardi Gras, semla on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some years I do Carnival up right. This year was not one of those years. But last year… Oh there was plenty of mindless gluttony this year (emphasis regrettably on mindless. Gluttony is so much more interesting when mindful.). And, as I intended to do a lot of posts leading up to Carnival (ha), lots [...]
February 2–Candlemas–The absolutely LAST day of Christmas
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
END now the white loaf and the pie, And let all sports with Christmas die. This is it, mes enfants, the absolutely LAST day of Christmas. No excuses, returns, or exchanges. Candlemas is the Feast of the the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of the Virgin Mary. Under Jewish law, a [...]
Barm Brack for Brigid
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Candlemas Eve
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is your Christmas tree hanging on to its last needle in the corner? Is the thing upon your door the object formerly known as a wreath? Get them down before the goblins come… Down with the rosemary, and so Down with the bays and misletoe; Down with the holly, ivy, all Wherewith ye dress’d the [...]
