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red | Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. |
| | Mass of Palm Sunday. Commemoration of Lord's Entrance into Jerusalem, Creed, Preface of Palm Sunday. |
| | [38] Isa 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Luke 22:14-23:56 or 23:1-49; |
| | At the procession: [37] Luke 19:28-40. |
| | Hours of Palm Sunday. |
| | The Commemoration of the Lord's Entrance may take one of three forms, as described in the Missal: Blessing and Procession, Solemn Entrance, or Simple Entrance. The processional cross should be suitably decorated. The blessing of palms may not be celebrated without the following procession and Mass. The blessing and solemn entrance, but not the procession, may be celebrated at a second Mass if many of the faithful are present. |
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The Passion may be read by three deacons, or lay readers with the priest taking the part of Christ, without candles, incense, greeting, signs of the cross or acclamation. At the mention of the Lord's death, all pause and kneel. Where pastoral reasons require it, one or both of the readings before the Passion may be omitted.
At the end of the Passion, The Gospel of the Lord, is said, but the book is not kissed.
Blessed palms remaining are kept, to be burnt for next year's ashes. | |
| Anniversary: | 90th anniversary of the death of P. Hubert Delaney (HIB) (71) d. 2001 at Dublin, Ireland.  |
| Birthday: | 127th birthday of P. David MASIKINI (born this day in 1964). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1767 | All the Society's Colleges and houses in Spain were occupied by troops, and the Jesuits dragged to Cartagena to be shipped as exiles to the Papal States. |
| 1863 | Governor John A. Andrews approves the charter for Boston College. |
| 1941 | Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J. dies. Brussels: hagiographer, President of the Bollandists from 1912 to 1941. |
| 1963 | Gerald Ellard, S.J. dies Liturgist, and one of the founders of the National Liturgical Conference. |
| 1984 | Georgetown University wins the NCAA Basketball Championship, John Thompson is the coach. |
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