Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion

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I understand the reasons behind this title for Sunday.

It has been known by the names Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday in the past. There is a desire to incorporate both aspects into the title for the day.

I just find that the name is kind of crazy sounding. For whatever reason I don’t have quite as much of a problem with Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion.

It would make more sense if we called the whole week Passion Week rather than Holy Week. For example, we could say Monday of the Lord’s Passion rather than Monday of Holy Week.
 
Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday are not synonymous. Prior to VII, Passion Sunday preceeded Palm Sunday by a week. On Passion Sunday, all the statues and the crucifix were draped in purple cloth. The Passion was read on Passion Sunday as it was on Palm Sunday. On Good Friday, the crucifix was revealed arm by arm as part of the Good Friday liturgy. This stopped after VII.
 
I’ve heard Palm Sunday, then Passion Sunday, for today. This year is the first I’ve heard it called by the longer title. Vatican website calls it simply Palm Sunday. If it’s good enough for them …
 
It’s been called “Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion” for a few years now. I couldn’t tell you exactly how many.

I know it was used in the year 2001 but was not used in the year 1995. :confused:
 
That is very interesting as this is the first time I have ever heard this Sunday called that.

This is the only place (the CA forums) that I have even seen it!

I do wonder when it changed and why my Parish doesn’t use this term as it is a very Orthodox Parish and always up on anything new like when we started calling our Extrordinary Ministers of the Eucharist, Extrodinary Ministers of Holy Communion.

This thread is not the first place today I have read this either.

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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion is an atempt to fuse the two names. The real liturgical name for this Sunday is “Passion Sunday” since the Passion is read that day. In the late 1950s it was known a 2nd Sunday in Passiontide. Out of habit people still called it “Palm Sunday” and they still do today.
 
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SMHW:
It’s been called “Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion” for a few years now. I couldn’t tell you exactly how many.

I know it was used in the year 2001 but was not used in the year 1995. :confused:
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The name was officially changed with the promulgation of the English translation of the current Lectionary in 1998. This new edition changed many of the “official” names were were used to in the liturgy.
 
so we spent the entire time of proclaiming and reflecting on the Lord’s Passion yesterday in contemplating the title of the Sunday and finding ways to criticize, question, denounce or disagree with the Church authority who use it. Hhhmmm.
 
Not much harm in wondering and thinking about the relationship between the palm and the passion. Kept me from grumbling too much about the priest who had us the congregation read the part of Christ. I will save my grumbling for Ordinary Time!
 
Fr. Felix Just, SJ, has a wonderful websitethat discusses many aspects of the Lectionary for Mass. One of those aspects is that the official titles for certain feasts have been changed in order to make them significantly more formal and explicitly religious.

Besides the title for yesterday’s celebration of Mass, the following feasts have also had their name’s slightly changed:

From The Birth of John the Baptist to The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
From Sacred Heart to The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
From Epiphany to The Epiphany of Our Lord
From Christ the King to** The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King**
From Assumption to The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
From Triumph of the Cross to The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

These are but a few examples of the changes. Go to the websiteto find other interesting info on the Lectionary and its history.
 
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so we spent the entire time of proclaiming and reflecting on the Lord’s Passion yesterday in contemplating the title of the Sunday and finding ways to criticize, question, denounce or disagree with the Church authority who use it. Hhhmmm.
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I don’t know about anyone else but I usually contemplate the name when I am sitting at my computer and staring at the calendar passed out by my parish.

Our weekly choir music agendas have always have had the title for Sunday at the top of the page. Also, at my parish we require all Readers, EMHCs, Ushers, Altar Servers, CLoW leaders, etc., to sign in for the Sunday Masses at which they minister. These lists also would have Sunday’s title at the top of the sheets.

When I worked for my parish I was the one who compiled, typed, and printed these . Noting the title for Sunday has become second nature to me. (And when a particular day has an unusually long name I can’t help thinking about how someone is probably having to play around with the word processing margins to get the name to fit.)
 
My parish still covered all the statues and crucifix in purple cloth two Sunday’s ago. I wasn’t aware why they did it and I kept forgetting to ask. Anyone else’s parish do this?
 
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My parish still covered all the statues and crucifix in purple cloth two Sunday’s ago. I wasn’t aware why they did it and I kept forgetting to ask. Anyone else’s parish do this?
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My church covers the crucifixes. I started a poll on this last week, I have a bunch of links on it about this tradition. Towards the end of the poll there is a link to Jimmy Akin’s webblog, he has the most current info on this:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=106193
 
Many of these questions are issues of translation and of culture, rather than “official” Church usage. For example, the entire Church has never officially called Good Friday by that name; that is strictly an English language usage. In the romance languages, the day is most commonly known as Holy Friday. The official Missale Romanum calls it the Friday of the Passion and Death of the Lord.
 
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