Hard Question Needed

[Starets]

[quote name='toledo_jesus' post='1200764' date='Feb 19 2007, 07:04 PM']Mardi Gras was originally a celebration of what?

I think that's Fat Tuesday.

What is a traditional food for Fat Tuesday?

Pancakes...I think.[/quote]

Shrove Tuesday and Potato Pancakes with sour cream

[toledo_jesus]

[quote name='Staretz' post='1200784' date='Feb 19 2007, 09:17 PM']Shrove Tuesday and Potato Pancakes with sour cream[/quote]
for potato pancakes

[journeyman]

What is the connection between pretzels and Lent?

[url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0535.html"]http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/...ion/re0535.html[/url]

According to pretzel maker Snyder’s of Hanover, a young monk in the early 600s in Italy was preparing a special Lenten bread of water, flour and salt. To remind his brother monks that Lent was a time of prayer, he rolled the bread dough in strips and then shaped each strip in the form of crossed arms, mimicking the then popular prayer position of folding one’s arms over each other on the chest. The bread was then baked as a soft bread, just like the big soft pretzels one can find today. (To be fair, some traditions date the story to even the 300s.)

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

In the early Church what was the purpose of Lent?

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

Yummy ones.

Edited February 20, 2007 by thedude

[Paddington]

[quote name='journeyman' post='1200804' date='Feb 19 2007, 09:59 PM']the form of crossed arms, mimicking the then popular prayer position of folding one’s arms over each other on the chest.[/quote]

Whoa! You can do that?

[Paddington]

Thread idea! What are ALL of the prayer positions? Eh?

[Lil Red]

thanks everyone!

for junior high, i asked 'what are the three traditional practices of Lent?'

and for high school, i asked, 'there are at least five events in the Bible that the 40 days of Lent can symbolize. Name one of them'