Father Manny’s picture has been around the Internets – even as far as a Parisian stock photo web site. As the images are probably under copyright with the AP and the Daily Herald, the link to the Ash Wednesday photos page is below. Father Manny’s pictures appear as number 2, 5, 13, and 17. His picture was also featured later that week in the “This Week in Pictures” page.
Link: Images: Ash Wednesday in the suburbs – DailyHerald.com
Cary, IL
St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, Elk Grove Village
Contact: Fr. Manuel “Manny” Borg
www.stnicholasepiscopal.orgWhere and when will you offer Ashes to Go?
Father Manny Borg will be at the Cary, IL Metra train station from 7am until about 9am. He says “Look for the short guy in purple.”
Comments: The church in Elk Grove Village will be staffed during the day (which includes the regularly schedule support group meetings). Father Manny will be available to impose ashes and offer a quick prayer with anyone that stops by.
The full Ash Wednesday service will be at 7pm Wednesday, February 13. Stations of the Cross will be Thursdays at 6pm in Lent
What the heck is Shrove Tuesday? The word shrove is the past tense of the English verb shrive, which means to obtain absolution for one’s sins by way of Confession and doing penance. Thus Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the custom for Christians to be “shriven” before the start of Lent.* OK, so why pancakes? Pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent because they were a way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk, and sugar, before the fasting season of the 40 days of Lent. The liturgical fasting emphasized eating plainer food and refraining from food that would give pleasure: In many cultures, this means no meat, dairy, or eggs.
We are beginning this very Anglican tradition at St. Nicholas this year in honor of the fact that it was near and dear to our members from the former St. Bede’s. We are very excited to make this part of our life together.
Please join us at St. Nicholas on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 6:30 pm in Holy Innocents Hall. All are invited to come and share in a simple, though filling supper of home-made pancakes.
Please sign up in church on Sunday so we’ll know how many pancakes to prepare.
*Thurston, Herbert. “Shrovetide.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 6 Jan. 2013