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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Shrove Tuesday
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 22:52:32 -0500
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On 3/4/2025 10:41 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-03-04 10:06 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 2:52:10 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> Protestants don't observe it as there is no spiritual
>>>> mandate.
>>>
>>> How Protestant? I was indoctrinated in the Anglican church and it was a
>>> thing.  Driving around today I went by a couple Protestant churches that
>>> had signs out for pancake dinners.
>>>
>>>
>> Anglican, Lutherans, Methodists which are protestant observe
>> this day.  But Reform Protestants don't.
> 
> 
> For a few years we had some Dutch neighbours who ran a flower shipping 
> business. We never heard a peep from them on Sundays. I don't know if 
> they were at church all day or stayed in side. I was surprised to see 
> them working on Good Friday. I thought that was like the holiest of holy 
> days and if you can't work on Sundays you sure as dickens would not be 
> working in the day they  hero died.
> 
Going back about 6 or 7 decades, people would work but stop from 12 to 
3.  Some stores would close and people would spend the time in church.