Tomorrow Catholics celebrate Palm Sunday, the ceremony solemnly opens Holy Week, with the memory of the passion of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and the liturgy of the word that evokes the passion of the Lord in the Gospel of Luke .
And although Luke does not speak of olive trees and palms, but people who were carpeting the road with his clothes, like a king is received, the crowd got used to carry the palms celebration ornate who are blessed by the priest and believers keep with great devotion, even used as a defense when natural phenomena such as lightning storms.
According to father Carlos Javier Suarez Monsalve, pastor of El Juncal, faith is maintained and people go massively to Mass on Palm Sunday.
“Although it was made with palm trees are planted and now it is a tradition that has been maintained for centuries. Reflects what the Hebrew children did the passage of Jesus, who was tending their layers and cut branches to pass as he cheered saying: ‘or healthy, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, because they knew what he was doing, that was announcing a new kingdom, which is what we celebrate Palm Sunday, “father Suarez said.
to Marina Triana, trader religious items, who has spent 29 years in the atrium of the cathedral Immaculate conception of Neiva selling scapulars, Syrians, candles and pictures of all the saints, Palm Sunday has changed a lot, sales are not the same and although the church is filled customs have varied celebration.
“People now come to church as they want, formerly one dressed for the occasion, women dress, petticoats, background, mantle head and palm branch in his hand. What we blessed and we kept all year, when a storm had burned them down a bit and that was blessed, the storm calmed down, “recalls Marina.
He adds that before Palm Sunday was like a little show around churches, people came from the villages to sell the branches, fixed them the value according to the ornaments they had.
“that tradition has been lost because the same man was responsible for devastate palm plantations, now small trees that can not be given otherwise take, “claimed the trader religious articles.
He recalled that in previous seasons nobody went without wearing a scapular, or at least a candle to offer a prayer and ask some miracle, like to give thanks for favors received.
Ivan Tafur, a resident of Neiva, believes that people have been losing her respect for celebration on Sunday Palm, “now see Easter as a holiday, in that also influences during the other days of the year cathedrals they are sometimes closed, only opened when mass then people will lose faith and have it suddenly close by insecurity, “he said.
Celebration Family
Palm Sunday is a celebration that exists in family, in some populations small part being part of the group making the representation of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem live, girls are dressed as the Virgin Mary and children as San Joseph, mounted on a donkey, while the community welcomes them and waving palms. The processions start from a distant about two kilometers from the church, when come the blessing ceremony of the branches is done.
Tomorrow the celebration begins at 8:00 a.m. in the different parishes of the department, where the clergy expects the massive participation of the community, which is preparing to live a new Holy Week filled with religious fervor.
In several parishes celebration is live and children are the protagonists dressed as the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph
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grandparents usually carry a bouquet decorated qu do bless and keep it as a sacred object.
Carlos Javier Monsalve Suárez , pastor of El Juncal.
Marina Triana, trader religious articles.
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