;Posted on 02/22/2012 5:56:29 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Wednesday, 2/22/12
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
shrive; verb
1. to impose penance on (a sinner). 2. to grant absolution to (a penitent). 3. to hear the confession of (a person).
Etymology: O.E. scrifan "assign, decree, impose penance," from W.Gmc. *skriban (cf. O.S. scriban, O.Du. scrivan, Du. schrijven "to write;" O.N. skrjpt "penance, confession"), an early borrowing from L. scribere "to write" (see script).
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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are you up for fish fry season?
Shrives imposed yesterday don’t count for the 2012 Easter Season. The 2012 Season of Fasting and Penance starts today (in the Western Church) when we seek to be shriven by our priests. So, why is yesterday called Shrove Tuesday? Is that for all the 2011 shrives which arw now in the past tense? I’m so confused, and I forgot to eat my pancakes before midnight.
The thought has just occurred, why doesn’t IHOP capitalize on Shrove Tuesday? Is that because people have strayed so far from those traditions that not enough of them would understand the meaning? Or is that because IHOP thinks that their business would dry up on Wednesday, and they would be fasting for the rest of the season?
A+++ your questions are way too hard for me this AM ; )
Found a parish near work that is having what they call a “Continuous Ash Service” from noon to one today. Just show up, no need to sit thru one of those there lengthy masses, and get your forehead ashed. If they made it even more convenient, say to where you need not even leave your car - would that be a Shrive-Thru?
Obama’s reelection campaign consists of a special shrive on the one “percenters” and a gallimaufry of forced contraception and abortifacient drugs paid for by religious organizations. This is minatory coverage of both Romney and Santorum/Gingrich. The game is on, as a certain Alaskan panjandrum would say. TheO and his team have written the cacography on the White House walls. They are attempting to set the zeitgeist for a win in November. It looks tenebrific for now, but when we find our idoneous candidate, we can force Obama into a funambulism that may well defeat him. I don’t wish to be a pedant and will exuviate any dread I have.
Last night my favorite dem driver shouted about his lack of conviction for theO and his reelection stating for all the world his intention of voting for a Republican. The guys all laughed their heads off. Not a dem voter to be found.
One of the guys asked me if a snowman had visited me this winter. In front of everyone, including my dem driver who has breakfast everyday with the snowman’s nemesis. Close one.
shrive-thru??? LOL!< you win the prize!!! a big batch of FISH STICKS for you, m’boy! well it’s no longer a HOD, so a continuous ash service is great. i could go at lunch here at work but the xsgirls will be needing to go at 7pm so i will wait for them.
you continue to outdo yourself, Ti! A+++++ for the HW, and an A+ for your dem driver who has finally seen the light!
Not just fish season — pierogie season.
Wanna hear a good Freudian slip?
The anchor on the 10 o’clock news this weekend referred to Whitney Houston as a “pipe idol.”
oh yes, of course, but pierogies are a year round thing.
oh for heaven’s sake!
Maybe in your house.
Oh, yeah. I rewound it on the DVR to make sure I heard correctly. No one noticed or made any comment.
you only eat them during lent? i don’t associate them with Lent in particular, though i do look forward to the Eastern rite Ukrainian church having that Pysankyfest later in Lent, bc they have homecooked dishes for sale there.
Yeah, pretty much. They’re good “fast” food cause they aren’t very big but they’re filling.
I’m much more likely to have fish or seafood any time of the year than pierogies. Based on the supermarket displays of them this time of year, i’m not alone.
i can assure you there isn’t a supermarket display showcasing piergoies down here anywhere. though i did find some nice fresh ones, not Mrs Ts, at the Wegmans back in early January. with soft tender dough not that hard Mrs T’s crap.
Can’t we just be friends? Yes, I got all my own teeth and most of my hair and I am not being sought by any jurisdiction so I’m happy as is if it’s all the same to you.
What is a J*O*B? If it don’t involve coon dogs and Coors, forget it! Curs and Coors...sounds like a shyster in a shiny bottom suit.
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/20/naked-rowers-spotlight-slavery/
What about naked female rowers?
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