🌿🙏🌿 Palm Sunday

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In the ancient form of the Holy Week rites (i.e. prior to the Holy Week reforms of the mid 1950’s) there is a beautiful ceremony that occurs on Palm Sunday wherein the procession goes outside the church and the doors to the church are closed.
The door of the church is then knocked on three times with the shaft of the processional cross. It is a powerful and moving rite which Benedict XVI spoke of accordingly:
“In the old liturgy for Palm Sunday, the priest, arriving in front of the church, would knock loudly with the shaft of the processional cross on the door that was still closed; thereupon, it would be opened.

VIDEO FROM SJ CANTIUS CHURCH
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