Christians around the world will be getting blessed palm branches at Palm Sunday services, which start the church’s most solemn week
Reynaldo Hidalgo carries a bundle of palm fronds at the Church of the Incarnation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Volunteers flocked to the Catholic church to learn how weave them into elaborate, traditional Mexican designs so they can be blessed during the Masses for Palm Sunday, which starts Christianity’s most solemn week.
It’s a celebration not just of faith, but ancient cultural crafts, often related to spring and farming rituals, that they’re eager to pass on to younger generations. When she ran into trouble weaving the back of a two-foot-long palm shaped into a giant flower, she consulted Hidalgo's wife, Isabel Tenorio, who supervised the efforts to produce more than 400 palms before this weekend's Masses.
The palms are kept in places of honor in many homes for a year, when they’re traditionally burned to make ashes for the Ash Wednesday celebrations that mark the beginning of Lent. “I was raised in this culture, where it’s a blessing to have a little blessed palm,” Kari Mendoza said as her mother nodded.
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