For the very first time, we are all celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at Home.
Today, I watched online the Palm Sunday Mass celebrated by Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Here's some facts about Palm Sunday credits to Britannica:
Palm Sunday, also called Passion Sunday, in the Christian tradition, the first day of Holy Week and the Sunday before Easter, commemorating Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. It is associated in many churches with the blessing and procession of palms (leaves of the date palm or twigs from locally available trees).
These special ceremonies were taking place toward the end of the 4th century in Jerusalem and are described in the travelogue Peregrinatio Etheriae (The Pilgrimage of Etheria). In the West the earliest evidence of the ceremonies is found in the Bobbio Sacramentary (8th century). During the Middle Ages the ceremony for the blessing of the palms was elaborate: the procession began in one church, went to a church in which the palms were blessed, and returned to the church in which the procession had originated for the singing of the liturgy. The principal feature of the liturgy that followed the procession was the chanting by three deacons of the account of the Passion of Christ (Matthew 26:36–27:54). Musical settings for the crowd parts were sometimes sung by the choir. After reforms of the Roman Catholic liturgies in 1955 and 1969, the ceremonies were somewhat simplified in order to emphasize the suffering and death of Christ.
The day is now called officially Passion Sunday. The liturgy begins with a blessing and procession of palms, but prime attention is given to a lengthy reading of the Passion, with parts taken by the priest, lectors, and congregation. The palms are often taken home by the members of the congregation to serve as sacramentals (sacred signs of the sacraments), and some of them are burned the following year to serve as the ashes for Ash Wednesday.
May this Lent season gives us hope amidst pandemic.
Stay safe everyone!
The Catholic Church preaches a false gospel. We're saved by faith alone in Christ alone guided by the Bible alone. We're not saved by infant baptism, good deeds, and obedience to church rules. Mary is not our mother. She can't hear us, help us or pray for us. The Lord is our God. We shouldn't sin by praying to her.
To be saved you need to admit you're a sinner and accept what Jesus did on the cross as being the only necessary payment for your sins. You need to accept Jesus as your Lord too. Pray to God everyday. Confess your sins to him everyday. Confessing to a priest is worthless. Go to a real Bible believing church that preaches the word.
When you pray you can use the ACTS model of adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication. We should thank God for what he has done and praise him for who he is. We should pray our needs and the needs of other people.
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