The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-24
PALM SUNDAY
OBSERVANCE
TO BE HELD
Day Will BE Marked by Spe-
cial References in Bis
marck Churches
DATE BACK MANY YEARS


churches tomorrow will mark Palm
Sunday, day which has been OBJ
served throughout Christendom
since the Sixth century.
10 ali the world IT has an intimate
ASSOCIATION with man whose brief
Ike to n greater degree tnan o,her
since time began, profoundly IN
huenced the whole course OF his
tory. Riding down into Jerusalem
on this fatotul day eighteen centur-
les since, mounted on the humblest
of all the beasts of burden-symboli-
cal of the meekness and simplicity
of the doctrine which he preached.
Jesus of Nazareth was met by the
throngs which had already accepted
him, who strewed his path with palm
branches crying: "Hosannah to the
Son of David! Blessed is he that
comGth in the name >of the Lord"
And thus stamped the day-Palm
Sunday which marked the beginning
Of the end Of his remarkable mis-
sion on earth; and was to lead, five
days later, to the tragedy of Golgo-
tina.
With the day and it's significance
thus established, like many other
Christian customs which have TAX
en- place in the secular calendar,
Palm Sunday has remained through
the ages fixed and recognized event,
observed by Christian believers &C
cording to their doctrine forms.
Many CeremOniaIs Arise
,oA :v,Nn tenn.
monals have arisen in connection
with Palm Sunday. The palm
throughout history has been to all
people the emblem Of joy and of
triumph over foes. It's specific use
by Christians in this connection is
in token Of victory over the flesh
and the world; so it was that when
the Founder of Christianity rode in
to Jerusalem on the first Palm Sun
day it was with the emblem Of
triumph, the palm, that he was JOY
fully greeted Historians trace the
observance of Palm Sunday back to
the Sixth Century. The Greeks and
other churches of the East observed
it with great solemnity. With the
spread of Christianity to the West,
particularly the Latin countries,
some of the rigid forms of the OBJ
rrvancc gave way to a more joyous
celebration, and the day took on tho
nature of IA floral festival second on
ly to that of Easter itself. Among
the Spanish it was known as Pasqua
Florida; and Spanish explorers hav-
ing on Palm Sunday 1872, discover
ed what is now the State of Florida,
that name was given to the land in
honor of the festival.
The medieval chronicles abound
in quaint references to the obser-
vance of the day among the Armen-
ians, Lithuanians, Serbs and Croats,
as well us in England and in Ger
! many. In England the day was
called Olive or Branch Sunday; and
the celebration took the form of
long procession symbolical of the en-
try into Jerusalem, in which the
participants carried palm and olive
branches, and at the head of which
was borne the figure of child seat
ed on an ass, quantity carved in
wood.
Ancient Chronicle
According to an ancient chronicle
the faithful in Jerusalem were wont
on each recurring Palm Sunday
"after the customary exercises from
cock crow to noon had taken place
in the Anastasia and at the Cross,
to go to the greater Church behind
the Cross on Golgotha called the
Martyrium. Here the ordinary SER
vices were held. At the seventh
hour q P. NJ, all proceeded to the
Mount of Olives and to the cave in
which the Lord used to teach; and
for. two hours, hymns, anthems and
Lessons were recited. About the hour
of None, g p. NJ all went singing
hymns, to the Imbomon whence our
Lord assembled into Heaven. Here two
hours were spent in devotional ex-
ercises, until about five o'clock when
the passage from the Gospel relating
to how the children carrying
branches and palms met the Lord.
saying, Blessed is he that cometh in
the Name Of the Lord was read,
following which the procession dis
perscd amid shouts of 'Hosannah to
the Son of David"
Palms blest or Palm. Sunday ana
carried in the professions were lat
err taken home by the faithful and
used for devotional purposes. In
the Christian churches wheres- Ash
Wednesday is observed at the begin
ming Of the Lenton Season, the
ashes with which the sign of the
Cross is made upon the foreheads OF
the devout by the officiating priests
=: ..,rnl froy, tho hu rninD Of Oalm
branches which were blest on the
preceding Palm Sunday. r
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