We don’t often connect prayer with Mardi Gras.  Today it’s celebrated as a fun festival with parades and parties.  But the final day, called Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, has its roots in church history.  It’s the day before Ash Wednesday when Christians traditionally enter a 40 day period of self examination, fasting, prayer and…

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This Mardi Gras prayer celebrates its religious meaning.  Our Mardi Gras prayer can be used on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.  The Mardi Gras celebration  is also called  Carnival, Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday.  Mardi Gras is the final day before Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of the Church season called Lent.  Lent is…

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Fasting and prayer go together.  Fasting is a means of prayer in which we give up food or some other daily activity of life for a set period of time in order to focus more clearly on God.  The Hebrew word tsum means a voluntary abstinence from food, which has also been translated as “deny…

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