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Mercredi Gras

Every year New Orleans becomes a party town with their celebration of Mardi Gras, which means Fat Tuesday; the day when you feast and party and get fat. This year, Mardi Gras is on March 4, which means the paraders in New Orleans will March 4 into Mardi Gras singing "When the saints come marching in". It is always the day before Lent, the Catholic penance before Easter. To me the only reason for a Mardi Gras is that Lent follows. We party just before that, because we know on the day after we must fast and think solemn thoughts about something that happened 2,000 years ago. I say, if we can party on Mardi Gras, we can party any day of the year. I say that life was made for merriment and celebration, not for solemn Lents. There is nothing special about 47 days before the first Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring. Sad things can happen any day of the year, so we must be prepared to party any day of the year and not pile up all our frustrations before Lent. Let the celebration continue right into Lent. Mercredi Gras (Fat Wednesday), anyone?