SHROVE MONDAY

 

Part of the traditional English Shrovetide

Falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday

Shrove Monday, is a Christian observance

Which more importantly precedes Pancake Day

BLACK MONDAY

 

Black Monday or Shrove Monday evening

Was a time for boys to commit petty crime

Now we don’t have it on one special night

Instead now it appears to happen all the time

QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY

 

The second day of Shrovetide

Shrove Sunday or Quinquagesima

Celebrated in the Christian church

As the fiftieth day before Easter

 

EGG SATURDAY

 

The first day of Shrovetide

Is Shrove or Egg Saturday

An Oxfordshire tradition

Sometimes called egg feast day

SHROVETIDE

 

Shrovetide begins on Egg Saturday

Heralding the coming of lent

And deciding what to give up

Is normally the way it is spent

WHERE DO YOU STAND?

 

Just standing in a palace doesn’t make you a Tsar

Any more than standing in a garage makes you a car

It doesn’t make you a cook if you stand in a kitchen

So just going to church doesn't make you a Christian

CHRIST THE REDEEMER

 

Christ the redeemer

He died on the cross

He died to save us

And His majesty

Made of the world

A place of hope

A place of grace

A place of freedom

A place of love

He called us from the darkness

Into His loving light