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Wednesday 5 March 2014

Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day, is celebrated a day before Ash Wednesday.  It is where people make pancakes to use up all of the rich foods in their pantry, like butter and eggs, so they are ready to fast like Jesus.  On Tuesday SM13 celebrated Shrove Tuesday and we all made pancakes with lots of yummy toppings and sauces.  We came up group by group and made our own pancakes.  It was really fun and we all enjoyed it.  Yum, yum!  By Niamh, Brendon and Elizabeth.

On the 5th of March we celebrated Ash Wednesday in our school hall with a liturgy.  During the liturgy we all got marked with a cross of ashes on our forehead.  The ashes are collected when the palms from last Easter are burned.  It is a reminder to us that we all come from ashes and to ashes we all will return.  We are also marked with the ashes because it marks our commitment to Jesus Christ and God.  We think about what we are sorry for and the wrong things we have done in the past year.  We ask for forgiveness so we can become closer to God.  By Faustina and Charity.



  

5 comments:

  1. Those pancakes were nice as.

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  2. Thanks Ms Hewett not meany teachers make pancakes on a school day

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  3. Making pancakes with our class mates and our teacher was fun and YYYUUUMMMYYY MMMMMM

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  4. Beautiful Miss Hewitt,
    the pictures,
    the pancakes,
    EVERYTHING!

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  5. you guys are so lucky!
    to have pancakes at school!

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