Palm Sunday, or the Passion of the Lord, is a unique holiday in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the Holy Week. On this day we commemorate the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. The colorful Palm Sunday is a special beginning of the week of meditation and reflection that is reaching its apogee during the celebration of the Paschal Triduum.
On that day, in the John Paul II Foundation Home in Lublin, at 11.00 a.m., a solemn Holy Mass began. The Mass was celebrated by the Director of the Home, Fr. Jan Strzałka along with Fr. Robert Ptak, Deputy Director, Fr. Michał Prokopiv from Ukraine and other priests who are scholarship recipients from Indonesia.
The participants of the ceremony gathered in the hall in front of the chapel, where the blessing of palms and the reading of a fragment of the Gospel describing the solemn entry of Jesus into Jerusalem took place. The procession with palms to the chapel was a symbol of following Christ the King, to enter with Him “through His passion and the cross into the glory of the resurrection.” During the liturgy of the word, the Passion of the Lord was read, and after the Eucharist bitter sorrows were sung. Scholarship recipients were involved in the liturgy through readings, singing, playing the organ and serving at the altar.
Tetiana Hafych
