Shrove Tuesday Pancake Suppers around the Diocese
Feb. 2, 2024
Get ready for the Season of Lent in The Diocese of Missouri. You're invited to one of our many parishes serving up fun and delicious events to mark Shrove Tuesday on February 13, 2024.
Thanks to Michelle Heitman, parish secretary at Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Charles, for compiling this list of Shrove Tuesday events happening around the Diocese.
Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
Tuesday, Feb. 13
5 - 7 p.m.
The Shrove Tuesday pancake supper returns to the Cathedral from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 13 in Schuyler Hall. Enjoy time with your Cathedral friends and a delicious meal on this final day of indulgence before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. A variety of pancakes will be served along with sausage and bacon. Gluten free pancakes are available. Please let us know if you need them. Coffee and juice will be available.
There is no cost for the meal. Donations for the Blessing Box will be accepted in the forms of cash, check made payable to Christ Church Cathedral, or the following items:
- Fruit cups, applesauce cups
- Bottled water
- Mylar blankets
- Warm socks, hats and gloves
- Pop top cans of ravioli, spaghetti, stews, soup
Please invite your family and friends to attend this Mardi Gras feast. See you there!
Christ Church Cathedral is located at 1210 Locust Street in St. Louis.
Grace Episcopal Church, Kirkwood
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
Tuesday, Feb. 13
5:30 - 7 p.m.
All you can eat!
$5 per adult $3 per child or $15 per Family Maximun
In some societies, the days before Ash Wednesday are a time for outrageous behavior and extravagant feasting – Carnevale ("farewell to meat") or Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday"). The English Shrove Tuesday refers to the need to be "shriven" – to confess sins and be absolved – in preparation for the austerities of Lent. The pancakes are a great way to use the last of the butter, milk, and eggs as we prepare ourselves for a simpler existence during Lent.
Burning of the Ashes
After a meal of pancakes, people are invited to bring last year's palm crosses or fronds to be burned during a prayer service.
The ashes that result from this fire are used as the ashes for our services on Ash Wednesday. In some ways, this represents a little death; a letting go of the past in order to embrace God's future. The burning of the palms is best done in silence.
Bring your palms from last year to help kindle the fire.
Grace Episcopal Church is located at 514 E. Argonne Drive in Kirkwood.
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, University City
Shrove Tuesday Dinner
Tuesday, Feb. 13
5:30 - 7 p.m.
in our undercroft. Folks can park along Jackson Avenue and enter through the door on Jackson Avenue. Please note that we do not have a parking lot and have very limited accessible parking spaces.
Holy Communion is located at 7401 Delmar Blvd. in University City.
St. Francis' Episcopal Church, Eureka
Shrove Sunday Pancake Brunch and Burning of the Palms
Sunday, Feb. 11
11:30 - 1 p.m.
Join St. Francis' on Sunday, February 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., for “Shrove Sunday!” Pancakes are a traditional meal for the celebration immediately preceding Lent because eggs, sugar and fat, commonly forbidden during a Lenten fast, are used up so they will not go to waste. We will end by burning palm branches from Palm Sunday 2023 for use in our Ash Wednesday liturgy.
St. Francis' Episcopal Church is located at 602 Rockwood Arbor Drive in Eureka.
The Episcopal Church of St. Michael & St. George, Clayton
Shrove Tuesday Pancake & Gumbo Supper
Tue, Feb. 13
5 - 8 p.m.
See more info and register for this event.
The Church of St. Michael & St. George is located at 6345 Wydown Blvd. in Clayton.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, St. Louis
Shrove Tuesday Pancake supper
Tuesday, Feb. 13
6 – 7 p.m.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church is located at 6518 Michigan Ave. in the Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Ladue
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
Tuesday, Feb. 13
5:30 p.m.
Get details and RSVP for this event.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church is located at 110 N. Warson Woods Road in Ladue.
Trinity Episcopal Church, St. Charles
Shrove Tuesday Pancakes
Tuesday, Feb. 13
5 - 7 p.m.
Brought to a griddle near you, by TRINITY MEN’S CLUB
On Tuesday, Feb. 13, eat your dinner at Trinity Church! All the pancakes you want, plus syrup, butter, sausage, and bacon—a perfect high-fat meal for Fat Tuesday, AKA Mardi Gras, AKA Shrove Tuesday. We even serve margarine and sugar-free syrup, if you want them. What more can you ask? Why pancakes? They are a traditional means of removing fats and sugar from our homes in preparation for our Lenten fast.
But there IS more! On the tables, you will find palm segments from last year's Palm Sunday worship. Write down one thing for which you intend to pray during Lent, or one habit with which you need help--anger, procrastination, holding a grudge--and place the palm piece in the baskets provided. Near the end of the Pancake Supper, we will take all the palm pieces and burn them in our Holy Baby Weber outside the doors of the church. We will use a short Liturgy for the Burning of Palms shared with us by the Rev. Beverley Van Horne. And guess what? Our Ash Wednesday ashes have been sifted from the Palm Sunday palms we burn on Shrove Tuesday! The fire is hot, the sparks fly, and the prayers we offer on the pieces of palm prepare us for the season of penitence and renewal. We eat pancakes as a reminder to take excess out of our homes and our lives; we burn palms, symbols of human frailty and God-given hope.
Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 318 S. Duchesne Drive in St. Charles.
Tags: News