Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday Palm Sunday On Palm Sunday, people go to mass in the morning.
Children carry palm leaves to be blessed by the priest.
Boys carry a simple palm branch, and the girls carry a branch that has been decorated. They often have sweets, tinsel or other decorations hanging from them. Ash Wednesday, In Christian churches, Ash Wednesday is the first day of the penitential season of Lent, so called from the ceremony of placing ashes on the foreheadas a sign of penitence. In the Roman Catholic church, ashes obtained from burned palm branches of the previous Palm Sunday are blessed before masson Ash Wednesday. Lent Lent is a period of fasting and penitence traditionally observed by Christians in preparation for Easter.