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Ash Wednesday 2026 clash

Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
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Ah. I've been entering 2026 liturgical events into iCal. Western Ash Wednesday next year (Feb 18) coincides with National Drink Wine Day. So that I can plan ahead, which takes precedence?

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  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    Foaming Draught wrote: »
    Ah. I've been entering 2026 liturgical events into iCal. Western Ash Wednesday next year (Feb 18) coincides with National Drink Wine Day. So that I can plan ahead, which takes precedence?

    Surely an Ash Wednesday Eucharist covers both?
  • Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
    Arethosemyfeet wrote: »
    Surely an Ash Wednesday Eucharist covers both?

    Wisdom of Solomon. You have shown up the paucity of my liturgical thought.

  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    If a sip of consecrated wine doesn't suffice, you might consider anticipating National Wine Day by getting legless on Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday. As all right-thinking Catholics do.
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    Arethosemyfeet wrote: »
    Foaming Draught wrote: »
    Ah. I've been entering 2026 liturgical events into iCal. Western Ash Wednesday next year (Feb 18) coincides with National Drink Wine Day. So that I can plan ahead, which takes precedence?

    Surely an Ash Wednesday Eucharist covers both?

    Beautifully Jesuitical.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Is it National Drink Wine Day in the UK? (Not sure where @Foaming Draught hails from).

    Enquiring minds need to know, so that supplies may be obtained...
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Is it National Drink Wine Day in the UK? (Not sure where @Foaming Draught hails from).

    Enquiring minds need to know, so that supplies may be obtained...

    Every day is in some places.
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    Five responses already and no one has pointed out that you can just give up abstemiousness for Lent, or even give up sobriety altogether?

    I'm very disappointed. ☹️
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Ruth wrote: »
    Five responses already and no one has pointed out that you can just give up abstemiousness for Lent, or even give up sobriety altogether?

    I'm very disappointed. ☹️

    What ish thish shobriety of which you shpeak?
  • angloidangloid Shipmate
    Move to Milan where Ash Wednesday doesn't exist.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    angloid wrote: »
    Move to Milan where Ash Wednesday doesn't exist.

    ...but Wine does.
  • betjemaniacbetjemaniac Shipmate
    MaryLouise wrote: »
    If a sip of consecrated wine doesn't suffice, you might consider anticipating National Wine Day by getting legless on Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday. As all right-thinking Catholics do.

    Not for the first time, I feel the lack of the ‘like’ button on the ship
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    In answer to my own earlier question, Dr Google tells me that February 18th is National Drink Wine Day in the UK, as well as in the US.

    Cheers!
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