Shrove Tuesday is a day of celebration as well as penitence, because it's the last day before Lent.

Lent is a time of abstinence, of giving things up. Shrove Tuesday is the last chance to indulge yourself and to use up the foods that aren't allowed in Lent. Giving up foods: but not wasting them.

In the old days, there were many foods that Christians would not eat during Lent: foods such as meat and fish, fats, eggs, and milky foods. So that no food was wasted, families would have a feast on Shrove Tuesday, and eat up all the foods that wouldn't last the forty days of Lent without going off.

St Francis will be celebrating this day on Tuesday 25th February 2020 by selling pikelets. Students will be able to buy 2 pikelets for $1 during Break 1. Toppings available will be maple syrup and strawberry jam. Gluten-free pikelets will be available for purchase upon request.

All profits raised will go towards our Project Compassion appeal. 

Mr Damian Sligar
Assistant Principal - Religious Education, Identity & Mission

and

Miss Lisa Christensen,
K-4 Religious Education and Mission Coordinator