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Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a Christian feast that commemorates Jesus's entry into Jerusalem. The feast occurs annually on the Sunday before Easter.
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Catholic Answer: Palm Sunday is always the last Sunday of Lent and the Sunday before Easter. As Easter is a movable Solemnity, Palm Sunday moves around each year. This year Easter was April 4, so Palm Sunday was March 28. Next year, Easter falls on April 24, 2011, so Easter will be April 17th.
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What do Russian orthodox people substitute for palm branches on palm Sunday?
Russian Orthodox have traditionally used pussy willow branches instead of palm branches, since the latter do not grow in Russia. However, when palm branches are available they may be used, and are sometimes tied together with pussy willow branches.
How is the gospel reading during Palm Sunday different than the average Sunday?
Firstly, they usually read two Gospel readings. Near the start of mass they read the Gospel about the entrance on Palm Sunday of Jesus into Jerusalem. Later they read the story of his passion from Holy Thursday and Good Friday. The second of these Gospels is considerably longer than any other Sunday Gospel.
What Hebrew word used on Palm Sunday means save we ask?
You're thinking of the word Hosanna, but this word isn't actually Hebrew. It's a modified word that came from Hebrew. Christians have made this into a single word, and converted it to Greek pronunciation "Hosanna," and translate it as "save we ask."
In Hebrew this is 2 words, usually hyphenated:
הושיעה־נא (Hoshiaʿ-na) = "Help please!"
"Na" (נא) is a particle word that is attached to commands to soften them, in the way that we add the word "please" to commands in English. Na can also be translated in older language as "prithee," "I pray thee," or "I beg of thee."
Note:
In Jewish liturgy, the words "Hoshia-na" or "Hosha-na" is applied specifically to the Hosha-na Service, a cycle of prayers from which a selection is sung each morning during Sukkot, the Autumn Harvest Festival of Tabernacles. The complete cycle is sung on the seventh day of the festival, which is called Hosha־na Rabbah (הושע־נא רבא, "Great Hosha-na".
What is the color for Palm Sunday?
Good Friday is Red Easter Sunday is white/gold Lenten time is purple
Jesus came down from the mountain where he was fasting for 40 days. And people welcomed him by throwing palms under his donkey so his riding animal would not touch the ground. this was kind of the red carpet treatment. but he was riding a donkey which is more like a poor mans car nowadays. the juxtaposition is supposed to show you how the king of the universe was still a poor man by choice. And also that even-though he was worshipped now, he would be given up to humiliation, torture and death in less than a week.
Christians now bring palms to church, or other flowers if they cannot find palms, to show they worship Jesus.
The palms are then burned and used for ash Wednesday of the next year. Where Catholics wear ash on their foreheads to symbolize their sinfulness.
Why do you recognize palm Sunday?
Palm Sunday is when we celebrate Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem for Passover. We call it Palm Sunday because, while Jesus was riding the donkey into the city, his followers were waving palm branches and shouting "Hosanna, blessed be the King!"
What does the palm have to do with Palm Sunday?
"Palm Sunday commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. The gospels record the arrival of Jesus riding into the city on a donkey, while the crowds spread their cloaks and palm branches on the street and shouted "Hosanna to the Son of David" and "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord" to honor him as their long-awaited Messiah and King.
The significance of Jesus riding a donkey and having his way paved with palm branches is a fulfillment of a prophecy spoken by the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 9:9). In biblical times, the regional custom called for kings and nobles arriving in procession to ride on the back of a donkey. The donkey (or domesticated ass) was a symbol of peace; those who rode upon them proclaimed peaceful intentions. The laying of palm branches indicated that the king or dignitary was arriving in victory or triumph."
What is the link between Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday?
On the day before Ash Wednesday the leftover palms from last year's Palm Sunday are burned and the ashes are used on Ash Wednesday to 'anoint' the faithful.
Palm Sunday is when people celebrate Jesus entering Jerusalem and ash Wednesday is when you use the left over palm leaves from palm Sunday. They are burnt to an ash and then in the mass the congregation is blessed with them.
What are some poems for Palm Sunday?
The Palm Sunday Song Words by Harrison Woodard Sung to the tune “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain” Note: The words in parentheses may be spoken, shouted, or omitted. He’ll be riding on a donkey When he comes (Praise God!) He’ll be riding on a donkey When he comes (Praise God!) He’ll be riding on a donkey, He’ll be riding on a donkey, He’ll be riding on a donkey When he comes (Praise God!) Oh, we'll all go out to meet him When he comes (Our King!) Oh, we'll all go out to meet him When he comes (Our King!) Oh, we'll all go out to meet him, We'll all go out to meet him, We'll all go out to meet him When he comes (Praise God! Our King!) We'll be waving our palm branches When he comes (God’s Son!) We'll be waving our palm branches When he comes (God’s Son!) We'll be waving our palm branches, We'll be waving our palm branches, We'll be waving our palm branches When he comes (Praise God! Our King! God’s Son!) We’ll be shouting out “Hosanna!” When he comes (We’re Saved!) We’ll be shouting out “Hosanna!” When he comes (We’re Saved!) We’ll be shouting out “Hosanna!”, We’ll be shouting out “Hosanna!”, We’ll be shouting out “Hosanna!” When he comes (Praise God! Our King! God’s Son! We’re Saved!)
Who hated Jesus on Palm Sunday?
no one did, the people at Jerusalem really just loved him. but maybe people DO hate Palm Sunday.
Was Palm Sunday before the last supper?
Yes it was. It is the Sunday before Easter Sunday, so it is the Sunday before Holy Thursday, which is when the last supper was.
Do catholics still get a day off from lenten fasting on Palm Sunday?
Lent is the forty days from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The Sundays are NOT part of the forty days. Therefore, there is no fasting on Palm Sunday or any Sunday during Lent.
How to fold a palm into a cross from Palm Sunday?
Folding a palm into a cross is a complicated process. Instructions that include diagrams are available online on multiple sites. First, fold the palm downward about four inches from the bottom. Next, fold up and to the right about 1 1/2 inches from the first fold. Fold the palm back across behind and to the left to form the right arm of the cross. Fold back to the right to form the left arm of the cross. Next fold the point diagonally back toward the middle just past the vertical. Finally, wrap the point around the center of the cross creating an X and tuck the point in the back.
Why is passion Sunday important?
Are there certain days of the year when weddings are not allowed such as the day before Palm Sunday?
There are a few days when marriage (especially during a Mass) is forbidden in the Catholic Church by law, and there are days and seasons when marriage is not forbidden, but clearly relegated to a secondary celebration on a holy day or during a liturgical season. Finally, local policy of the pastor of a parish may legitimately establish days when marriage is not allowed.
First of all, marriage can be solemnized at any time when one or both of the parties are in serious danger of death. Hopefully this does not apply to your situation.
A Nuptial Mass is forbidden in Church law on days when Mass is forbidden: Good Friday (the Friday before Easter) and Holy Saturday (the Saturday before Easter). A Nuptial Mass cannot be held on Holy Thursday (Thursday before Easter), either, because no other Masses are permitted on that day. I suppose that marriage can be solemnized outside of Mass on any of these days, but it would need to be a simple ceremony or private, as in a ceremony to convalidate an invalid marraige for a catechumen coming into the Church at the Easter Vigil.
On Solemities and Sundays and All Souls Day, marriage is permitted by law, but it is a secondary celebration in that the liturgy and readings are established for the celebration. So on All Souls Day, the priest may wear black and guess what? The readings will be about the mystery of death. How romantic-- I'd love the Dies Irae sung at my wedding, too.
The rubrics from the missal also urge the priest to advise couples of the necessary decorum which is needed during the penitential season of Lent and during Advent. During these seasons, the wedding celebration is to take on the tone of the season: during Lent, for instance music is to be in moderation-- there is to be no music played outside of the minimal necessary to accompany singing. No flowers are allowed in the Church during Lent, either. The wedding rehearsal, if on Friday, would be bound by the rules of abstinence (no meat). [Some might argue that a priest could dispense this, but in actuality, pastors only have the power to dispense individuals who are in his parish 'territory' or who are his parishioners and he may not make blanket dispensations to large, mixed groups.] Most couples would chafe under all these expectations, so pastors wisely discourage or forbid (as a local rule, which he can legitimately make) to have marriages during Lent (which would include the Saturday before Palm Sunday).
Pastors may also choose not to have weddings on other days due to local conditions. Most priests are stupid-busy on Sundays, for instance. A Sunday wedding Mass cannot and will not happen in most parishes because the priest is already binating or trinating (celebrating Mass two or three times) just to meet the needs of the faithful. Perhaps you may choose to have your wedding at a regular Sunday Mass-- this seems to be a preference of the Church, anyway-- but again, this precludes many of the elements of the typical 'fairy tale" wedding in the United States. Pastors may choose not to have weddings on other days as well, such as ordination day in a diocese or graduation weekend or the weekend of street fairs in the neighborhood of the church... these days simply are too busy for priests already or they may impinge on the dignity or the logistics of a wedding. [For instance, if the annual street fair is taking place in the neighborhood, there may not be parking in the church lot and the ushers may have to hustle away noisy, drunk revelers who want to destroy the restrooms, but I digress...] Believe it or not, besides the liturgical requirements, the weekend of Palm Sunday is one of the densest days for a priest in that the liturgy that weekend is somewhat busy and long and the crush of Holy Week activities is about to set in. Most priests are wise and saving their own sanity by not opening that weekend to weddings.
Ultimately it is usually not an arbitrary exercise of power by a celibate who isn't sensitive to the desires of young love. Most priests 'close' those days to weddings because most people dreaming of a 'fairy-tale wedding' just don't listen or 'get it '. Church's liturgy often makes specific requirements of all involved, and ultimately the celebration of marriage doesn't belong to the couple getting married, but it belongs to the Church. If you are being challenged by a priest's decision, look a little deeper to try to understand where he is coming from. Perhaps you could ask him in a respectful (non-aggressive) way. Most likely there is a very good reason for why he is making his decision.
What does Palm Sunday mean in the Order of Eastern Star?
Palm Sunday is Palm Sunday. It doesn't mean anything different to members of the Eastern Star.
