palm sunday

Philippines

April 1, 2007 8:10am CST

Today is Palm Sunday here in Manila everybody goes to church to buy a Palm or we called it here "Palaspas" anyone here bought one? and why?

3 responses

@roniroxas (10559)

• Philippines

2 Apr 07

we catholic celebrates palm sunday as the start of the holy week. we bought 2 palapas and went to church at 5am.

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• Philippines

2 Apr 07

We commonly celebrate the palm sunday as the beginning of lenten season for catholic people specially for filipinos.thanks for the response.

@roniroxas (10559)

• Philippines

4 Apr 07

we filipino start the lenten season not on palm sunday but on ash wednesday. palm sunday is the start of holy week. i think you got it wrong.

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• Philippines

4 Apr 07

Right, i got it wrong holy week started on palm sunday and lenten season started on ash wednesday and that ashes came from the old palm we bought last year.all clear thanks.

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@lyndee22 (1210)

• Philippines

3 Apr 07

i made my own palaspas by cutting the young branch of our palmera tree. it's been my practice to always prepare and have a palaspas for palm sunday no matter how it look.

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• Philippines

3 Apr 07

Me, it doesn't matter how the palm i bought looks like too. i choose the palm which is more simple to look thats good at least you dont need to buy at all, and you exerted your own effort to do it,thanks for the response.

• United States

1 Apr 07

wow our church gives them out free. How much do you have to pay for them?

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• Philippines

1 Apr 07

I paid it for 20 php ,your church give it for free what country you came from thats good to hear.