3547 Clifton Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
Phone: 513-861-1295
Pastor: Rev. Todd Grogan
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Celebrate the Carnival Season in Your Home
Carnival in our northern hemisphere occurs during the dark, cold wintertime. So it is a natural time to gather inside with family and friends to tell stories and have parties. Keep the carnival season well in your own homes - your Domestic Church. Gather together with your family and friends and neighbors to tell wonderful traditional fairy tales, and to tell your own stories, as well. Have festive meals. Celebrate with a traditional King's Cake. Keep the wonderful Feast Days of Winter Ordinal Time. As a family, make some Mardi Gras decorations for your home, and you can even make some to bring to decorate for Annunciation Parish's Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras Celebration! Make merry, as this is a foretaste of what we will be doing in heaven for all eternity - singing God’s praises and rejoicing at the feast at the Heavenly Banquet Table!*King's Cakes can be purchased closer to Shrove Tuesday at many local grocery stores. But you can also make one at home. Click here for a traditional recipe, which also includes the history of the King Cake. And here is another recipe site.*A good, colorful children's book which explains Carnival and Mardi Gras traditions is "Carnival" by Alice K. Flanagan. (Copyright 2004, Compass Point Books, ISBN 0756504783) This book is available for loan through the Cincinnati Public Library.