What is the significance of Palm Sunday?

Question

Why do people keep the palms?Do they keep them till the following Palm Sunday? What do they represent? Do all Christians do this?

Answer 1

It is the celebration of Jesus entering Jerusalem. The palms are kept until the following year's Lent when they are burned for Ash Wednesday. Not all Christians celebrate this day.

Answer 2

Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter and represents the day when Christ allegedly rode into the City of Jerusalem and the people waved at Him with palm fronds. The Catholic Church saves palms from Palm Sunday and then burns them the following year on Ash Wednesday to annoint the foreheads of Christians. The tale of Christ may be just that - a tale.

Answer 3

It commemorates the day Jesus came into Jerusalem, riding on the donkey, when the people honored him as a king, waving palms before him.

The old palms, which have been blessed, are burned and the ashes are used for the following Ash Wednesday.

Answer 4

It represents when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and the people welcomed him by laying down palm fronds. Mostly just Catholics and more traditional forms pay attention to this... like protestants might recognize that it was Palm Sunday, but wouldn't do anything to celebrate it.

Answer 5

It is the Sunday that Jesus made his triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem. The people hailed him with palm leaves as he entered the because he was the Messiah and it was prophecied in the Old Testament (Zech 9:9) that he would do this. It is a celebration of Christ as King of the Jews.

Answer 6

this is mostly a catholic tradition. it is done on the Sunday the Sunday before Easter. on that day jesus supposedly entered the city of Jerusalem riding on a donkey. his followers welcomed him to the city by waving palm branches and laying them on the ground before him. traditionally the palm leaves handed out now are tied together in the shape of the cross and hung on a wall in the home until they wither away.

Answer 7

Palm Sunday is the weekend before Easter. We remember Jesus' coming to Jerusalem to crowds of followers waving palms and singing "Hosanna". At this Mass we read the Passion of Christ which is the story of Jesus from His arrest to His death on the cross.

Answer 8

It's just fun to celebrate. The palms represent the palm branches that the people put down in the streets as Jesus rode in on a donkey. You don't have to keep them at all if you don't want. They're just for fun.

Answer 9

Nehemiah 8 :13-18

13 On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and the Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to give attention to the words of the Law. 14 They found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in booths during the feast of the seventh month 15 and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: "Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make booths"-as it is written. [b]

16 So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves booths on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim. 17 The whole company that had returned from exile built booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.

18 Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly.


John 12:12-17

12The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
"Hosanna![c]"
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"[d]
"Blessed is the King of Israel!" 14Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written,
15"Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey's colt."[e]
16At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

17Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. 18Many people, because they had heard that he had given this miraculous sign, went out to meet him. 19So the Pharisees said to one another, "See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!"

Answer 10

It's when the palm OS handheld users of hardwarezone get together on a sunday to talk about the latest techy talk. Some christians love technology. And everybody loves their palms - unless someone on yahoo auctions gives them a good price.. I prefer my o2 though.

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