Mardi Gras Sunday Feb. 26

Mardi Gras Sunday Feb. 26

Mardi Gras Sunday, the last Sunday before the season of Lent, will be celebrated Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Waquoit Congregational Church during its regular 10 a.m. worship services. Mardi Gras Sunday is a joyful and uplifting worship featuring jazz and gospel music and the Cajun band, Ok Bayou.

During the services, the “keeper of the alleluia” also will be selected. Based on tradition, the keeper of the alleluia is responsible for holding on to a symbolic alleluia until Easter morning. In keeping with the Mardi Gras theme, there also will be beads, hats and masks, and lots of singing of new and traditional jazzed-up hymns.

The Cajun band Ok Bayou features Amy Larkin on fiddle, Jonathan Larkin, Cajun accordion, and Aaron Mayo, guitar.

All are welcome to this festive and fun worship service, regardless of faith tradition. Services start at 10 a.m., followed by gumbo, red beans and rice and a King Cake!

For more information, call the church at 508-548-5269.