Too Many Holidays on One Day

Today is the eve of Lunar New Year. Tonight is when families gather for feasting and beginning the celebration.

But today is also Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten fast.

So what are Chinese Catholics to do, feast or fast?

Well, apparently the Bishop of Singapore got permission from the Vatican to commemorate Ash Wednesday on Marti Gras Tuesday.

Then on Wednesday they can feast and celebrate New Year and continue the Lenten fasting on Thursday.


Many Chinese restaurants in the USA have placemats on which you can look up the year you were born and learn what animal represents that year on the Chinese calendar.

But if you were born in January of that year, you actually belong to the previous lunar year. The placemats are wrong! Someone has to expose this scandal! Geraldo, where are you?