John Shelby Spong (Jesus for the NonReligious) puts it this way: the Jewish eight day celebration of the harvest, known as Sukkoth, and also called the Festival of the Tabernacles or Booths, was probably the most popular holiday among the Jews in the first century. In the observance of Sukkoth, worshippers processed through Jerusalem and in the Temple, waving a bunch of leafy branches made of willow, myrtle and palm. As they waved these branches in that procession, the worshippers recited words from Psalm 118, the psalm normally used at Sukkoth. Among these words were "Save us, we beseech you, O Lord." Save us in Hebrew is hosianna or 'hosanna'. This is typically followed by "Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. (Psalm 118:25-6)."
Although the Passover is too early for leafy branches (except palms), Mark 11:8-9 (NAB) says when Jesus entered Jerusalem, "Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out: 'Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'." The Gospels of Matthew and Luke more or less follow Mark, but John's Gospel corrects this to say 'palm branches', creating our modern tradition of Palm Sunday.
According to John 12:13, the crowd called "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel!"
Yes, Palm Sunday is the week before Easter.
Palm Sunday started a Sunday before Easter.
Palm Sunday 1939 was on Sunday, April 2.
Palm Sunday 1956 was on Sunday, March 25.
Palm Sunday was on the 4th of April in 1982.
Palm Sunday 1946 was on Sunday, April 14.
Palm Sunday 1981 was on Sunday, April 12.
On palm Sunday the churchesare decorated with palm branches and crosses of palm leaves are given out.
Yes definetly you can.Yes you can. You can wear any colour on Palm Sunday. Other than celebrants at Palm Sunday ceremonies, there are no rules for colours to be worn by people on Palm Sunday.
Catholic Answer: Palm Sunday is always the last Sunday of Lent and the Sunday before Easter. As Easter is a movable Solemnity, Palm Sunday moves around each year. This year Easter was April 4, so Palm Sunday was March 28. Next year, Easter falls on April 24, 2011, so Easter will be April 17th.
Palm Sunday - book - was created in 1981.
Palm Sunday is Palm Sunday. It doesn't mean anything different to members of the Eastern Star.