Palm Sunday commemorates Christ triumphant entry to Jerusalem when people cheered Jesus coming by laying palm leaves at his feet. Catholic celebrate around the world but in Poland and in Polonia communities in the USA, people bring to church palms for blessing.
There are no palm trees in Poland therefore, Polish people make their own palms, “palmy” and bring them for blessing. In most areas such palms are quite simple bouquets consisting either of catkins branches, boxwood branches or dried flowers.
In more traditional regions of Poland, like in the mountains some places are famous for its palms. People built tall and large, richly decorated structures that can even have a few meters, after blessing the palms are obligatory decorations on Easter tables.
In the photo: Palm Sunday celebration at Los Angeles Our Lady of the Bright Mount Parish, Shrine of Saint John Paul II.
