Question of the Day:

Multiple chose: Today is Ash Wednesday, so where do the ashes used today come from?A. Chain smokers B. bonfires held yearly in Israel C. the palm branches from last years Palm Sunday D. the ashes from incense burned in church E. it’s not really ash it’s dirt from graveyards.

Answer to Yesterday’s Question: Carnival is from the Latin carne vale which means “farewell to the flesh.” It is called that because it is the festive time before the more somber Lent in which one does all the things one will not do in Lent which traditionally included eating meat, fat, eggs and dairy. Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday and is called that because traditionally it was the day one killed and feasted on a fattened calf and eat up all the foods in your house that could not be eaten during Lent and would go bad otherwise. It is also called Pancake Tuesday because in England people would make pancakes to use up their foods not eaten in Lent, and Shrove Tuesday from the verb shrive which means to hear confessions after the custom of going to confession for the start of Lent