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Weaving Palm Fronds for Palm Sunday

4/5/2020

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In the ancient world, the palm frond was a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating, especially in the Near East and around the Mediterranean. The use of palms on Palm Sunday (La Domenica delle Palme in Italy), commemorates Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, as foretold by the prophet Zechariah. People cut branches from palm trees, laid them across Jesus' path and waved them in the air as he entered Jerusalem the week before his crucifixion and death.

They greeted Jesus not as the spiritual Messiah who would take away the sins of the world, but as a potential political leader who would overthrow the Romans. They shouted "Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!"

Every Palm Sunday when I was a child, my sisters and I would come home after mass with palm fronds and while my mother made the Sunday Sugo, we would turn them into crosses, hearts or other shapes. The best would be hung on the top of the door to our apartment or in between the two kitchen windows. My Mother would also place one next to her statue of the Madonna in her bedroom. Our creations were never as good or elaborate as some of the examples here.

Happy Palm Sunday, tutti. Stay safe. Have faith.

--Jerry Finzi, GVI
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"The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that
Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
13 So they took branches of
palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”
 
And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,
'Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold,
your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey's colt!' ”

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Click HERE to see a list of palm weaving videos on Youtube.
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Fresco by Pietro Lorenzetti, 14th Century
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