Pancake Breakfast

Holy Family invites you to come and enjoy a pancake breakfast with us!

The breakfast will take place after the service. Please RSVP to the church office by 02/23/2025 if you plan to attend. All are welcome.

In the Episcopal Church, it is tradition to mark the beginning of with a pancake supper or breakfast.
During the liturgical season of Lent, believers have historically abstained from rich foods such as meat, eggs, lacticinia (dairy products), and alcohol—a practice that continues today. Shrovetide provided Christians with the opportunity to use up these foods prior to the start of the 40-day fasting season of Lent. Shrovetide is the Christian liturgical period prior to the start of Lent (Ash Wednesday that begins on Shrove Saturday and ends at the close of Shrove Tuesday)The tradition of pancakes breakfasts during Shrovetide owes itself to this practice of using up ingredients used to make rich foods, inclusive of meat, eggs, milk and milk products, and alcohol prior to Lent. As such, it was traditional in many societies to eat pancakes or other foods made with the butter, eggs and fat or lard that would need to be used up before the beginning of Lent.