Palm Sunday

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Cross made from palm leaf

Palm Sunday is a Christian festival. It is always happens on a Sunday but the date each year changes. It is a day to celebrate the day that Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem in Israel as was written about in the Bible in Mark 11:1-11, Matthew 21:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, and in John 12:12-19. During Palm Sunday many Christians celebrate with Crosses made out of Palm leaves and by going to church.^[1]

Many Christian churches mark Palm Sunday as the beginning of Holy Week which ends on Easter Sunday. It is an event celebrated by some churches by cutting branches of palm trees and attending mass. Palm Sunday is celebrated by most Christian churches all over the world including Roman Catholics and Protestants. However, Orthodox churches observe Palm Sunday at a later date following the Julian calendar. In some countries, palm leaves that were blessed during mass are displayed on the door of their houses believing that it will also bring blessings to their household. Some churches traditionally gather the palm leaves to be burned and used during the Ash Wednesday services.

Palm Sunday Media

"Flevit super illam" (He wept over it); by Enrique Simonet, 1892
Small crosses woven from blessed palms are often distributed at churches on Palm Sunday.
Palm Sunday in East Timor
Blessing palms outside an Episcopal Church in the United States
Easter witches and bunnies in Nissilänpiha Kerava, Finland 2009
Palmesel (figure of Christ on a donkey, mounted on a wheeled platform). Art from Southern Germany, perhaps Swabia.
Flowers (in this instance marigolds) strewn about the sanctuary in an Oriental Orthodox church in Mumbai, India, on Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday in Malankara Church (Oriental Orthodox) of Kerala – People holding tender leaves of coconut palms (kuruthola) and flowers are thrown upwards during Gospel reading
A priest blesses palm fronds in Santiago Apostol Church in Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines.