Tag: Palm Sunday

Lenten season 2019 has begun with Ash Wednesday; Good Friday on 25 April, Easter on 27 April

Ash Wednesday, which was on 6 March, marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day fast enjoined by the Church before Easter

March 11, 2019

What is Palm Sunday? When is it celebrated, and why?

Palm Sunday is celebrated exactly a week before Easter Sunday, to commemorate Jesus Christ's entry into Jerusalem before he was betrayed, crucified and resurrected.

March 25, 2018

Palm Sunday observed in Kerala

Till Easter Sunday on April 1, there will be daily masses and a special one on Good Friday (March 30)

March 25, 2018

Silence of Hosanna!

It was a bloody Palm Sunday in Egypt, and literally so. The prologue to the Holy Week, that culminates in Good Friday and Easter, could scarcely have been been more catastrophic; the fact that it happened in churches and in the midst of Mass has heightened the enormity of Sunday's tragedy. A few direly distressing …

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April 11, 2017