Mardi Gras

Trefzger's Bakery in Peoria Heights was looking a little like the Big Easy today, baking up King Cakes - decorated coffee cakes enjoyed this time of year.

PEORIA HEIGHTS (Heart of Illinois ABC) - A bakery here in the Heart of Illinois is celebrating the Mardi Gras holiday with those tasty treats. Copyright 2022 Heart of Illinois ABC. All rights reserved. Heart of Illinois bakery keeps Mardi Gras tradition alive

A baptist church in New Orleans loves its neighbors in an unlikely place.

The authoritative record of WORLD Radio programming is the audio record. Ultimately, we're waiting on God and the coming of the kingdom. Meanwhile, the hard work of sharing the gospel in what Pastor Brian calls “a strange place” continues. Today is Ash Wednesday, and heavily Catholic New Orleans is in a time of fasting. But Brian says the good side of Mardi Gras is the whole community turns out. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. It's just you have to do a lot more translating here in the French Quarter than you do in other places. And the other thing about it is that the celebration, if it's not based in Christ, can be diseased, you know. Often, the partying ends in arrests. WORLD Senior Correspondent Kim Henderson recently visited the French Quarter in New Orleans and brings us this story about a church loving its neighbors. Churches in the New Orleans area understand that, but some plan special ministry efforts during Mardi Gras as a counter option. The church website calls it “outreach to their neighbors.” They offer meals and hot showers.

NEW ORLEANS (NOLA WEEKEND) - Mardi Gras 2022 is finally in the books, and parades were back in action after a hiatus in 2021 due to COVID.

Usually set 47 days before Easter, Mardi Gras could fall on any Tuesday between Feb. 3 and March 9. It’s no secret that Mardi Gras is always celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Lent is observed among the Catholic Church and some Protestant churches leading up to Easter as a time of repentance, marked by fasting, abstinence, prayer and almsgiving. To sum things up, the calculation has everything to do with Mardi Gras and when we celebrate it. The day on which we celebrate Mardi Gras all depends on Easter. Fat Tuesday is also always the day before Ash Wednesday. See the Mardi Gras dates for the next five years: NEW ORLEANS (NOLA WEEKEND) - Mardi Gras 2022 is finally in the books, and parades were back in action after a hiatus in 2021 due to COVID.

Revelers decked out in traditional purple, green and gold came out to party on Fat Tuesday in New Orleans' first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020.

With the weather and the general sense of a somewhat normal New Orleans,” general manager John Michael Rowland said during the noon rush. After Zulu comes the elaborate and fantastical floats of Rex, the self-styled king of Carnival, chosen by a group of high society, old-money businessmen. After spending last year celebrating at home and “in spirit,” it was good to be back to something closer to normal. People wore sequined jackets, kids played football with throws they’d caught at previous parades and speakers on the back of a truck boomed with the sound of “Mardi Gras Mambo.” He said he loves just about everything about Mardi Gras: the crowds, the atmosphere, the people, the happiness. Revelers decked out in traditional purple, green and gold came out to party on Fat Tuesday in New Orleans’ first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020.

Anthony Fauci would not approve. As for the vaccine passports formally in effect in New Orleans, they are all but ignored. The party was canceled and banned ...

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