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St. Augustine's Chapel St. Augustine’s Chapel TABLE OF CONTENTS WHAT IS LENT? . .1 SHROVE TUESDAY . 2 MARY LYNN’S PANCAKE RECIPE . 3 PANCAKE GUIDED REFLECTION . 4-5 ASH WEDNESDAY . 6 CROSSWORD PUZZLE . 7 GROWING WHEATBERRY. 8-9 SEWING REMNANTS . 10 COLORING PAGES . 11-13 WHAT IS LENT? Lent is a season that invites Christians to focus on self-examination, prayer, and fasting in preparation for Easter. The forty days of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. However, the forty days of Lent does not include Sundays, as those are Feast Days in which we are supposed to “break” our fast. The forty-day period of Lent connects with many events in scripture: the forty days of the flood, the forty years of Israel wandering in the wilderness, and Jesus’ forty days in the desert. The season of Lent invites us to turn inwards, deepening our commitment to prayer, fasting, and works of mercy. While some people fast from certain foods during Lent, there are many different ways we can practice fasting: we can fast from talking unkindly to ourselves, using disposable goods, buying things we don’t need, and more. Instead of taking something away during the season of Lent, some people choose to add something into their daily life, such as reading a daily devotional or praying every day. The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. As we gaze at the horizon and step out into the wilderness, we walk in faith hoping that the Spirit will bring new light and life as the days lengthen. 1 SHROVE TUESDAY Shrove Tuesday is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, and it is the final day before Lent begins. The name “Shrove Tuesday” comes from the verb “to shrive,” which means to absolve people of their sins. During the Middle Ages, “shriveners” (priests) heard people’s confessions in preparation for Lent. Shrove Tuesday also became a day known for pre-fasting indulgence. In particular, many who fasted during Lent did not consume rich ingredients like milk, butter, sugar, or eggs. This gave rise to the tradition of making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday to use up those ingredients before beginning a Lenten fast. 2 MARY LYNN’S MAGIC MIX PANCAKES Ingredients: o 2 cups of Magic Mix o 1 egg o Roughly 1½ cups milk (if you use buttermilk, add around ½ teaspoon of baking soda) o Butter or oil for skillet o Optional ingredients: chia seeds, hemp hearts, oats, chocolate chips, blueberries, sugar, honey, etc. Directions o Crack an egg into a large bowl and beat it. After, pour in the Magic Mix. Slowly add your milk of choice and gently mix to combine (slowly add milk and stir, continuing to add milk until the texture is a batter as opposed to a dough). o Place some butter or oil on a hot griddle or skillet. When the butter foams or the oil shimmers, ladle the batter onto the skillet. Adjust heat as necessary; usually, first batch will require higher heat than subsequent batches. Flip pancakes after bubbles rise to surface and bottoms brown, after 2 to 4 minutes. Magic Mix Recipe: 2 cups of flour, 3 teaspoons of baking powder (Mary Lynn recommends Rumford), ½ teaspoon of salt, ¼ cup oil (whatever you like to use!), blend all of the ingredients using your fingers, and store in an airtight container. You can use Mary Lynn’s Magic Mix to make biscuits, muffins, cornbread, pancakes, waffles, and more! SHROVE TUESDAY GUIDED REFLECTION Let’s be honest, cold pancakes aren’t the best! Make your pancakes first and then reflect while you’re eating or after your belly is full. RECEIVE THE LOVE! Use this imaginative prayer before you eat your pancakes: Imagine the pancakes cooking on the griddle. Perfect pancakes, light and airy, browned just right. Picture them stacked on a plate, rich butter on the top. Perhaps with blueberries or strawberries added in or on the top. Perhaps filled with chocolate chips and topped with whipped cream! The butter melts. The syrup flows. Your pancakes might be plain but they are still a gift. Imagine these abundant pancakes as a gift from God to YOU! Allow this image to represent the richness and abundance of God’s unconditional love for you today and always! Let’s taste and receive this love today and each day between now and Easter. AMEN. 4 Adapted from Free Range Worship by Lilly Lewin. RECEIVE THE DELICIOUSNESS! Light a candle, enjoy your pancake feast, and consider the guided reflection TABLE – If you could have anyone joining you for your Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras pancake dinner without any pandemic restrictions, who would be sitting around your table? SPOON - How has your life and the life of those around you been mixed up in the past year? SYRUP AND OTHER TOPPINGS – What are things that make your life sweeter? How have you experienced or seen the sweetness of God’s love during the pandemic? Last weekend? This winter? MAGIC MIX/PANCAKE MIX – Where are the places you experience the “salt and light” of God’s love? Who is someone who has shown you the “salt and light” of God’s love? MILK – What things have filled your cup today? Do you feel like your cup is more empty or full right now? Is there something you long for God to fill your cup with? EGGS – Where are places you experience the beauty of God’s creation? What is a way you can help remind yourself to slow down this Lenten season to notice God’s creation especially as the new life of spring begins among the remnants of winter? CONSIDER YOUR SPOON AGAIN - What ways can you stir up good things in the lives of those around you? How can you share the sweetness of God’s love to your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers? How can we be salt and light to those around us even in a pandemic? Make a plan. Taste the sweetness. RECEIVE GOD’S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for you today and always! Let’s taste and receive this love today and each day between now and Easter. AMEN! 5 ASH WEDNESDAY Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, a day in which we gather to receive ashes on our forehead as a sign of repentance and a reminder of our mortality. Ash Wednesday is also traditionally observed as a day of fasting in the Episcopal Church. JOIN US AT 12:00PM ON WEDNESDAY (FEB. 17) FOR AN ONLINE ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE Make your own ashes: 1. Find something to burn (old palm branches, paper— anything safe to burn!) 2. After you burn the matter, pour the ashes through a sieve or sifter to help them break down into powder. 3. Put the ashes in a bowl and add a little oil (you can use olive oil, jojoba oil, etc.); blend together. 6 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 7 Adapted from www.BibleKids.edu GROWING WHEATBERRY GRASS Planting Lenten grass is an old Finnish tradition and a lovely way to mark the season of Lent. As we expectantly wait and prepare for Easter, we can carefully tend to the seeds and watch them grow. Soon, delicate blades burst forth from the earth, slowly growing as they stretch toward the light. With good care, the grass will grow thick, strong, and lush, symbolizing the resurrection and new life springing forth from the earth. After your Easter grass has fully grown, you can… o Decorate your Easter basket. It’s a perfect, eco-friendly alternative to plastic Easter grass! o Eat it or drink it. Throw it into a smoothie or drink it alongside your favorite fruit juice. You can also feed it to your grass- eating pets like guinea pigs, rabbits or chickens. o Let it keep growing. You can place Easter grass outdoors and it will keep growing for many months. Keep the grass watered, and trim down when necessary! o Use it as an Easter centerpiece. 8 DIRECTIONS: Soak seeds – Put seeds in a covered bowl or container, fill with water, and let them soak for 3-8 hours. Afterwards, drain the water out—the wheatgrass should look nice and plump. Select a planter – Look around your house for something you could re-use as a planter (it has to be at least 2 inches deep). Use a planter you already have on hand, dig through recycling and pull out an old carton, or use a clear bread pan or casserole dish. Make sure there’s drainage – If you select an object to plant your seeds in that does not have any holes at the bottom, place a thin layer of gravel on the bottom before adding the layer of dirt to allow for some drainage. If your container already has holes for water to drain, skip this step. Add soil – Add about 1 inch of soil into the container. Lightly compress the soil and moisten it well. We recommend using a spray bottle so that the soil does not get too wet! Plant seeds – After the seeds have soaked for around 3-8 hours, spread them evenly over the top of the seed starting soil. Press them lightly into the soil, but don’t add soil over the top or bury them. Don’t worry if the seeds touch, but try to spread them thinly if you can so that they are not growing too much on top of each other. Water daily – Keep soil moist using a spray bottle or by watering from the bottom of the tray when possible.
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