Blessed palms are sacramentals of the Church that remind the faithful of certain key moments in the life of Christ. All sacramentals increase Grace when used or displayed reverently. Blessed palms should be treated with care and kept in a place of devotion. Palms should never be thrown out, but should rather be returned to a Catholic church the Sunday before Ash Wednesday to be burned for the ashes of Ash Wednesday of the following year. It is also permissible to hold them indefinitely in your selected place of devotion if you should prefer.
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Bishop Ouellette blesses the palms at the 2020 Palm Sunday Mass
Matthew 21:1-11
The Triumphal Entry
21 When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.” 4 This [a]took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold your King is coming to you,
Gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
Even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”
6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them, 7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on them; and He sat on [b]the coats. 8 Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road. 9 The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting,
“Hosanna to the Son of David;
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest!”
10 When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”+
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