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Palm Sunday
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The Sixth Sunday in Lent, the first day in Holy Week. It commemorates the entry of our Lord into Jerusalem when the people strewed the way with palm branches and cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David." It was formerly customary for worshippers to appear on this day in procession carrying in their hands palms, or yew or willow branches, which were blessed before the beginning of the Communion Service. On Palm Sunday the Church has always begun to set before God and man the Gospel account of the Passion of our Lord, that by St. Matthew being read on this day. (See LENT, SUNDAYS IN.)
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Miller, William James. Entry for 'Palm Sunday'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/p/palm-sunday.html. 1901.
Miller, William James. Entry for 'Palm Sunday'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/p/palm-sunday.html. 1901.