Thanks, that makes sense. He did bless the palms in the back of the church with the holy water before he processed to the sanctuary. He just didn’t walk up and down the aisle while sprinkling the palms held by the congregation. I had just never been to a Mass where it was done that way before.
I picked them up off the table in the back when I entered the church. They were not blessed yet. Father started the Mass at the back of the church, blessed palms that were on the table, then processed to the sanctuary while we sang “All Glory, Laud and Honour”. He did not splash us and our palms as he processed.
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Sounds like a lack of communication where some one forgot to tell the parishioners comming into church, not to take the palms for they were not blessed yet. The priest probably didn’t notice people holding palms in the pews, but blessed the palms in the back of the Church, then they were brought forward to the sanctuary to be handed out. Many parishes do it this way. In my parish, they avoid this confusion by having the palms in the front of the Church in front of the altar. The priest blessed the Palms, then we went up like we do for communion, and he and the altar boy handed them out.
For the members of the congregation who did not take their own palms, the ushers handed them out. Nobody picked up palms after the priest blessed them on the table. In previous years, we picked them up off the table then the priest walked down the aisle and sprinkled us and the palms as he processed. This was the first time it has been done the way I described.
Like I said, it sounds like a lack of communication.
All the parishes that I’ve been in, the palms are blessed prior to anyone receiving them.