Hosanna Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

Hosanna is  affiliated with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.  We celebrate the Divine Service with Communion on Sunday mornings at 10:00 using the historic liturgy of the Christian church as found in the Lutheran Service Book.  

Mardi Gras will be on February 25 this year.  What does "Fat Tuesday" mean to you? It  is a sort of unusual holiday. The next day is Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras traditions can include parties, drinking, debauchery, and basically “getting your sin on” before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.

More conservative Mardi Gras observers use the occasion to get rid of all the rich food and sweet treats that people tend to give up during Lent. There’s a reason for it being referred to as Fat Tuesday. It may be some people’s last day to eat chocolate for awhile.

Prehaps,  rather than overindulging in the secular bacchanalias that can accompany Mardi Gras, (and the accompanying hangovers and heartburn!) today it might be better to consider observing Shrove Tuesday.  To be “shriven” is an old way of saying to get rid of those things that fail to glorify God, and to be forgiven and to start fresh.  It’s a good day to confess and forsake our sins and accept God’s forgiveness.

For more information about this part of the church year, including the upcoming Geisma Sundays, copy and paste the following link into your browser to read an article written by Paul McCain and Terry Maher that has a lot of information about this part of the Church year.

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/01/whats-a-gesima-the-church-prepares-for-lent  

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