Christ Church celebrates Shrove Tuesday with pancake celebration

Yahoo

06-03-2025

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – On the night before Ash Wednesday, commonly referred to as Fat Tuesday, the parishioners of Christ Church gathered in their Great Hall for a pancake supper, followed by pancake Olympics.
The tradition of eating pancakes on what some call Shrove Tuesday comes from a time when people gave up leavening for Lent, so pancakes were an easy way to use up your leftover yeast.
This year, Father Scott Parnell decided to add some additional revelry to the celebration by organizing some pancake competitions.
Ash Wednesday services held at Christ Episcopal Church
Participants engaged in a frying pan relay and a pair of pancake tossing games, one for closest to the pan and the other for who could throw the cake the farthest.
'We want to celebrate the abundance of this life, the ability of us to come together as a parish family, as a community, and have some fun together and to live into that joy,' said Parnell.
Parishioners also brought their dried palms from last year's Palm Sunday where they were burned in the church's courtyard to produce the ashes used for today's Ash Wednesday service.
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