Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.
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The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels.
Palm Sunday marks the first day of Holy Week.
In most churches, Palm Sunday is celebrated by the blessing and distribution of palm branches (or the branches of other native trees), representing the palm branches which the crowd scattered in front of Christ as he rode into Jerusalem; these palms are sometimes woven into crosses.
Many churches of mainstream Christian denominations, including the Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Anglican, Moravian and Reformed traditions, distribute palm branches to their congregations during their Palm Sunday liturgies.
Christians take these palms, which are often blessed by clergy, to their homes where they hang them alongside Christian art (especially crosses and crucifixes) or keep them in their Bibles and daily devotional books.
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Palm Sunday Quotes
1. “Palm Sunday is like a glimpse of Easter. It’s a little bit joyful after being somber during Lent.”
-Laura Gale.
2. “Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!”
-Carl Tuttle.
3. “Alleluia, how the people cheer and palm leaves rustle as the king draws near.”
-John Beavis.
4. “Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.”
-Richard Rohr.
5. “God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”
-Billy Graham.
6. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
-Saint Augustine.
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