Happy Ash Wednesday
For those of you who didn’t grow up Catholic, here are a few fun facts about the Season of Lent.
1. During Lent, Catholics are not allowed to eat grilled or broiled meats. If we want meat, we have to cook it on stones that have been heated in an outdoor fire pit.
2. The Catholic word for that pit is “Excelsior.”
3. Technically, “Excelsior” is not a Catholic word. It’s actually Latin.
4. Latin America gets it’s name from the man who discovered it: Latino Latimus Von Latin.
5. No such man ever existed.
6. It’s eight in the morning and I’m drunk.
Wait, this one is true. Unlike Christmas, Easter does not fall on the same day every year. Its date is determined by the moon. From Wikipedia:
The practice of those following Rome was to celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the earliest fourteenth day of a lunar month that occurred on or after March 21. During the Middle Ages this practice was more succinctly phrased as Easter is observed on the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox.
Makes perfect sense. And if anyone out there would like to celebrate a Kukoda family tradition, you can do so by buying all of your Easter candy the day after Easter, when it will be marked down as much as 75 percent. Those peanut butter eggs taste even better when you buy them in bulk.
Lent via Wikipedia
