What happened on Palm Sunday?

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.

The feast commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels.

Palm Sunday marks the first day of Holy Week.

Many churches of mainstream Christian denominations, including the Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Anglican, Moravian and Reformed traditions, distribute palm branches to their congregations during their Palm Sunday liturgies.

Christians take these palms, which are often blessed by clergy, to their homes where they hang them alongside Christian art (especially crosses and crucifixes) or keep them in their Bibles and daily devotional books.

What happened on Palm Sunday?

Palm Sunday commemorates the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey.

According to Christian teaching, as Jesus approached Jerusalem, he told two of his disciples to go into a nearby village and bring him a donkey on which he would then ride into the city.