Palm Sunday!
Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, in Matthew 21.1-11, can be read here.
♫ Palm Sunday will perhaps always bring to mind memories of walking in procession to church each Palm Sunday a few years ago, singing All glory, laud and honour (getting increasingly out of time with the choir at the front of the procession as it went on, and everyone catching up as they arrived in church!)
Receiving a palm cross on Palm Sunday (and, for many, it then being burnt to make the ash for Ash Wednesday the next year) is a tradition that's anticipated with excitement.
This year, for most of us, things will have to be done differently. It makes me wonder if perhaps some of the newness of things at the moment will become traditions of the future.
We can't get to church this Sunday, but there are instructions for making a palm cross here!
(That booklet also mentions Easter gardens, but there's a much better guide here if you'd like to make one too this week.)
The Collect for Palm Sunday:
True and
humble king,
hailed by
the crowd as Messiah:
grant us the
faith to know you and love you,
that we may
be found beside you
on the way
of the cross,
which is the
path of glory.
Amen.
(© The Archbishops' Council, and found here)
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