Tag: Palm Sunday

This is the edited text of the Homily for the Solemn Mass of Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, Year A on 29 March, 2026 at St Mary's Cathedral.

Marking the start of Holy Week, Pope Leo XIV used his first Palm Sunday Mass to issue a forceful plea for peace, urging an end to war as he reflected on Christ’s Passion.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, the custos of the Holy Land, were blocked by Israeli police from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday,

In Nicaragua, Catholics celebrated Palm Sunday under intense government scrutiny, as police and paramilitaries surrounded Managua’s cathedral and restricted Holy Week activities to church grounds.

As Pope Francis and Orthodox Church leaders advance talks on unifying the date of Easter, the spirit of that dialogue was reflected in Punchbowl, where thousands of Orthodox and Catholic faithful processed through the streets and gathered at St Charbel College on Highclere Avenue to celebrate Palm Sunday together for the first time since 2017.

Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering—it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy Week.

Dear friends, we began our celebration today on a high note by joining the children of Jerusalem, singing Hosanna to the King, the new David, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest (Mk 11:1-10). But by chanting Mark’s Passion and sacrificing Christ’s body and blood, we also face up to the warts and all of human hearts and behaviour.

"Despite the war and everything going on around us this year, we have once again chosen to celebrate Jesus' triumphal entry into the Holy City," said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Hundreds of pilgrims took up the cross for the final week of the three-week pilgrimage in Sydney's central deanery, which concluded on Palm Sunday at St Joachim's Lidcombe with Mass celebrated by Bishop Richard Umbers

Palm Sunday at last! I’ve found the last few weeks of Lent quite challenging. It turns out that I need to work much harder on all the virtues I’ve been writing about.

In his Palm Sunday homily, the Holy Father said there are many 'abandoned Christs' in our midst who need closeness and love

Christianity is not the religion of an elite, a cult of the perfect: it is for all humanity, sinners hopefully on the way to being saints.