Palm Sunday & the start of Holy Week

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Mar 30: Sandy Snyder Birthday

Bishop and Confessor, patron of Wales. He is usually represented standing on a little hill, with a dove on his shoulder. From time immemorial the Welsh have worn a leek on St. David's day, in memory of a battle against the Saxons, at which it is said they wore leeks in their hats, by St. David's advice, to distinguish them from their enemies.

This dates from 1887 and is celebrated on the first Friday of March.

Perpetua and Felicity are two 3rd century Christian martyrs venerated as saints. Perpetua was a 22 year old married woman, while her co-martyr, Felicity, was her slave. Their date of martyrdom is traditionally given as March 6, 203. As a result of refusing to renounce Christianity or to sacrifice to the gods for the safety of the emperor, both were condemned to be torn to pieces by wild beasts, for which they gave thanks to God. The details of their trial, and subsequent deaths were committed to writing by Saturus (their teacher and martyr) in a genre of text that is technically called a "Passion."

Date of birth unknown; died after 385 or 386. He belongs to the group known as the "Cappadocian Fathers", a title which reveals at once his birthplace in Asia Minor and his intellectual characteristics. Gregory was born of a deeply religious family, not very rich in worldly goods, to which circumstances he probably owed the pious training of his youth.

Born at Rome about 540; died 12 March 604. Gregory is certainly one of the most notable figures in Ecclesiastical History. He has exercised in many respects a momentous influence on the doctrine, the organization, and the discipline of the Catholic Church.

Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 493.

At the age of 16, he was taken to Ireland as a slave where he escaped after 6 years. He became a Christian priest, then later a Bishop. He returned to Ireland as a missionary and played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.

St. Patrick is traditionally associated with the Shamrock plant, which he used to explain the concept of the Trinity.

Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ was a descendant of King David. This fulfills the prophecy that the Messiah would come from the house of David. In his faithful loving care was entrusted the childhood and youth of the Redeemer of the World.

A model for fathers, Saint Joseph is invoked as a protector of the family. A carpenter by trade, he has been declared the patron saint of all working people, of craftsmen and of the poor.

Bishop of Lindisfarne, patron of Durham, born about 635; died 20 March, 687. His emblem is the head of St. Oswald, king and martyr, which he is represented as bearing in his hands. His feast is kept in Great Britain and Ireland on the 20th of March, and he is patron of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, where his commemoration is inserted among the Suffrages of the Saints.

Cranmer was archbishop of Canterbury (1533 - 1556), a leader of the English Reformation who was responsible for establishing the basic structures of the Church of England.

The fact of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is related in Luke 1: 26-38. The Evangelist tells us that in the sixth month after the conception of St. John the Baptist by Elizabeth, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the Virgin Mary, at Nazareth, a small town in the mountains of Galilee. Mary was of the house of David, and was espoused (i. e. married) to Joseph, of the same royal family. She had, however, not yet entered the household of her spouse, but was still in her mother's house, working, perhaps, over her dowry.

Palm Sunday, also known as Passion Sunday, marks the beginning of the Christian Holy Week leading to Easter. On this day, Jesus entered Jerusalem and was acclaimed as a king.

Members of the congregation may hold small crosses made of palm leaf, both to remember the palm leaves which the people of Jerusalem waved when Jesus arrived, and to remember the cross on which he died.