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Palm Sunday, Sunday 17 April

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Elizabethofseasons

Elizabethofseasons Report 17 Apr 2011 02:01

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are okay.

Palm Sunday is sixth and last Sunday of Lent and commerates
Jesus's Christ's triumphant arrival in Jerusalem to the cheers of the crowd.

Christian clergy often use the Palm Sunday story to help people think about the their faith.

In many churches, during Palm Sunday services, large palm branches are carried in processions.

In Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, members of the congregation hold small crosses made of palm leaf, both to remember the palm leaves which the people of Jerusalem waved when Jesus arrived, and to remember the cross on which he died.

Some Christians display the crosses from that service in their homes during the year as a symbol of their faith. The crosses are burned at the start of Lent the next year to provide the ash for Ash Wednesday.

If you are going to a service, travel safely.

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
xx

Leni

Leni Report 17 Apr 2011 13:43

Hello Elizabeth, thank you for posting.We had a lovely service in church today where we were given our palm crosses and held them up to be blessed.
Mine is kept over my bed and my granddaughter does the same.
Where I live loads of people will be going to the cemetery today to place flowers on a loved ones grave. I don`t know if this is just a local custom, the cemetery looks beautiful it is a sea of colour of all different flowers. It is lovely to look at.
Wishing you many Easter Blessings
Leni

Fiona

Fiona Report 17 Apr 2011 14:50

Hello Elizabeth
I was at church this morning and it was a lovely service, When I was little and living in England I was Church of England and we received Palm crosses at the end of the service , now I live in Scotland and go to church of Scotland , we do not have Palm crosses on Palm Sunday but next week on Easter Sunday we will have the trunk of our old Christmas tree which will be tied into the shape of the cross and every person in the congregation will have 3 daffodils and will place them in the Chicken wire which is moulded round the cross , it makes a beautiful daffodil cross.


Leni I will be going up to the cemetery next Saturday to place flowers on my parents grave and other relatives graves who are near by.

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Newtownards,(Kerr) Sunderland.(Robinson )/Lancashire.(Fairhurst, Hall) South Lanarkshire(Steven) ,Ayrshire(Miller) . Killeen, Killmood, Belfast , (Magee, M'Kim)(m)