Students at Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School indulged their sweet teeth when they took part in the Shrove Tuesday pancake day.
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St Mary and St Joseph Parish priest Father Greg Bellamy said Shrove Tuesday marks the day before the start of Lent.
Father Greg said Lent is the 40-day period before Easter and traditionally people stopped eating eggs, sugar and dairy during that period but also do more charity work and pray more often.
“The day before it began they used up extra food they weren’t going to eat, by making pancakes,” he said.
“Shrove Tuesday has been going for at least 1000 years, shrove is from the word shrive which means to repent of sins.”
As well as eating pancakes he said people should attend confession.
Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
