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.
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.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Epaphroditus, disciple of Paul (cf. Phil. 2:25) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
150th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Manning (38) d. 1893 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
126th anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Friedrich (71) d. 1917 at St. Andrä, Austria.
Anniversary:
110th anniversary of the death of F. Angelo Dal Bosco (57) d. 1933 at Baturite, Brazil.
Anniversary:
88th anniversary of the death of P. John Kelly (52) d. 1955 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Spence (77) d. 2002 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1540
St. Francis Xavier, told by Ignatius to prepare to leave for the Indies, was ready the next day; he needed only sufficient time to have his poor soutane mended.
1585
In Rome, the three Japanese ambassadors were received by Fr. General with great solemnity in the Society's Church of the Gesu.
1594
Henry IV took possession of Paris after a prolonged siege. Fr. Possevino and other Jesuits worked at effecting a reconciliation of the king with Rome.
1643
At Nagasaki, Ven. Father Anthony Rubino, an Italian, after suffering for seven months under the "torture of water," was hanged by the feet in a pit with his head downwards, and so expired.
1655
Fr. Francis Perez died at Antwerp. He was born on Christmas Day and died on Good Friday. He followed his two sons into the Society of Jesus and they served his first Mass.
1980
Luis Espinal, S.J. journalist, beaten and machine- gunned, dies a martyr, in Bolivia, aged 48. He worked for the compesinos.
