Mardi Gras. Shrove Tuesday. Pazcki Day. They all refer to the final hours of indulgence before the Christian season of Lent. But in Lancaster County, that day is first and foremost known as Fasnacht Day (sometimes spelled fastnacht ). This year, Fasnacht Day is Tuesday, Feb. 16, with several countywide sources continuing the tradition. The one pre-pandemic exception: Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Columbia, known for making its own fasnachts, has canceled this yearâs festivities due to COVID-19. Here are ten still-open spots in Lancaster County to get your fasnacht fill.Â
Frying fasnachts. Blaine Shahan | Staff Photographer.
Achenbach s PastriesÂ
Where: 375 E. Main St., Leola.
Mardi Gras. Shrove Tuesday. Pazcki Day. They all refer to the final hours of indulgence before the Christian season of Lent. But in Lancaster County, that day is first and foremost known as Fasnacht Day (sometimes spelled fastnacht ). This year, Fasnacht Day is Tuesday, Feb. 16, with several countywide sources continuing the tradition. The one pre-pandemic exception: Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Columbia, known for making its own fasnachts, has canceled this yearâs festivities due to COVID-19. Here are ten still-open spots in Lancaster County to get your fasnacht fill.Â
Frying fasnachts. Blaine Shahan | Staff Photographer.
Achenbach s PastriesÂ
Where: 375 E. Main St., Leola.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the Covid-19 response before signing executive orders for economic relief to Covid-hit families and businesses in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 22, 2021. | NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images
President Joe Biden, who is only the second Catholic president of the United States, says he’s leaning on prayer to help him lead the nation through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis.
“I don t want to proselytize. My religion, for me, is a safe place. I never miss mass, because I can be alone. I mean, I m with my family, but just kind of absorbing the fundamental principle that you ve got to treat everyone with dignity,” Biden, 78, stated ina recent interview with People magazine in which the president was asked if he leans on prayer to help him lead.