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The name "Palm Sunday" is a misnomer; the "verba" or "dwarfed spruce" is used instead. According to tradition, on the Saturday before Palm Sunday the Lithuanians take special care in choosing and cutting well-formed branches, which the women-folk decorate with flowers. The flowers are meticulously tied onto the branches, making the "Verba".
Palm Sunday is one spring's most holy and righteous holidays. Read through these scripture verses to help get you in the spirit for the holy day. Palm Sunday Scripture to Read as Holy Week Approaches
An elderly woman chanting a verse of the Pasyon in the Kapampangan language. Pabása ng Pasyón (Tagalog for "Reading of the Passion"), known simply as Pabása is a Catholic devotion in the Philippines popular during Holy Week involving the uninterrupted chanting of the Pasyón, an early 16th-century epic poem narrating the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. [1]
A Holy Week procession is a public ritual march of clergy and penitents which takes place during Holy Week in Christian countries, especially those with a Catholic culture. Various images of the saints, especially the Virgin Mary, and most importantly the image of the crucified Christ are carried aloft by foot on shoulder-borne pasos (or on ...
Palm Sunday is the last week of Lent before Easter Sunday. It is the first day of Holy Week , the most sacred seven days of the Catholic calendar. Many Protestant religions also honor Palm Sunday.
One of those being Palm Sunday! Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent season for Christians and signifies the first day of Holy Week—the days including Good Friday and Easter that are spent in ...
A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova, Seville by Alfred Dehodencq (1851). Holy Week in the liturgical year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
Good Friday is always two days before Easter, and Palm Sunday consistently takes place seven days before Easter on a Sunday. For 2023, that Palm Sunday date is April 2, 2023, and looking ahead to ...