Pictures from the Totally Traditional Shrove Tuesday Pancake Argentinian Supper:

Yep, he always shows up. He must think that pancakes have peanuts on them or something.

Great singing from Carlos, best part of the whole thing.

Sometimes, you just have to dance with your Mom.

Riley the Fearless experiences his first Pancake Supper at ECR and survives.

Mary Wade Edgecomb explains how pancakes are supposed to be cooked and the Big Fish Bryant explains how it really should be a fish fry.

In A Penitential Season.. 
    Yes, #WeToo

Women tell #MeToo stories of life in the Episcopal Church House of Deputies president will chair special resolutions committee on sexual harassment and exploitation By Mary Frances Schjonberg Posted Feb 14, 2018

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[Episcopal News Service] Sexual harassment and exploitation in the church are being highlighted in a series of reflections, essays and meditations, some of them explicit in their descriptions, that began Ash Wednesday on the House of Deputies website.

“The examples you read are from real women who shared instances of sexual harassment and abuse in real church settings. Any woman who wears a collar has these stories, seething just underneath the skin,” wrote the authors of the first post, the Rev. Laurie Brock and the Rev. Megan L. Castellan. “For most of us, we have so many they blur together into a giant mass of discomfort and scarcely-remembered sweeties, honeys, and forced grins at comments about our breasts.”

Brock is the rector of The Episcopal Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Lexington, Kentucky, and a General Convention deputy. Castellan is currently the assistant rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri, and by the end of Lent will be the rector at St. John’s, Ithaca, New York.

Some of the articles will be difficult to read, warned the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies, in announcing the series.

Follow this link to read the articles:   Click Here for The Full Article

Maintaining Our Beautiful Elderly Nave
Explained by Jo Wicker

Other than the floors, the pews suffer the most wear and tear of the sanctuary furnishings. Screws and nails work themselves out, upholstery stains and tears, book racks break, and kneelers become loose.

Currently, minor repairs on the pews are underway. Specifically, holes left by removal of hooks that held pew cards are being filled, sanded and stained. In addition, the laminate covering the pew supports on the backs of the pews is being repaired.

Please be sure the little people in your pew (and any big people who need watching,) do not pick or pull off the blue tape marking the repair sites. Picking and pulling anything that can be picked or pulled seems to be a universal need of humankind. RESIST.

The pew repairs on the south side are completed. The repairs of the laminate on the pew supports on the north side are identified and marked with the blue tape across the back of the pews. Repairs begin immediately, followed by filling holes left by hardware removal. 

The next phase will include repairs of the kneelers, and we'll keep you informed. At the end of the project, you will know more about pew repairs than you ever thought possible or necessary for your well-being, but you never know. Somewhere, sometime in your future, there could be a pop quiz on pew maintenance and repair. 

You will be prepared.