New Orleans, LA | February 17 (2015) Repenting isn’t exactly on the top of everybody’s to-do list. The same goes for fasting. Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in English) began life as a rare example of the Catholic church encouraging a faithful existence with a carrot, instead of a stick. It’s technically the indulgent yin to the stoic yang of the penitential season of Lent, providing a final opportunity to gorge on baser temptations in anticipation of a dull, dutiful month ahead.
New Orleans is home to the most famous iteration here in the States, known today as much for the increased odds of public exposure and “hurricane” cocktails as it is for elaborate floats and bead stampedes. The celebration, like Easter, is a moveable feast whose exact dates require some work to divine. Those rusty on the ecclesiastic calendar need only know that it traditionally falls sometime after the first five days of February and the first week of March.
New Orleans, LA | February 17 (2015) Repenting isn’t exactly on the top of everybody’s to-do list. The same goes for fasting. Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in English) began life as a rare example of the Catholic church encouraging a faithful existence with a carrot, instead of a stick. It’s technically the indulgent yin to the stoic yang of the penitential season of Lent, providing a final opportunity to gorge on baser temptations in anticipation of a dull, dutiful month ahead.New Orleans is home to the most famous iteration here in the States, known today as much for the increased odds of public exposure and “hurricane” cocktails as it is for elaborate floats and bead stampedes. The celebration, like Easter, is a moveable feast whose exact dates require some work to divine. Those rusty on the ecclesiastic calendar need only know that it traditionally falls sometime after the first five days of February and the first week of March.
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