(April 5, 2020 at 3:30 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The only thing I remember about Palm Sunday is that the palms are supposed to be burned the next year to make the ashes for Ash Wednesday.
Here those old palm things were stored under the roof - as a protection against lightning.
Already as a child I was skeptical about it.
And I thought: If a flash of lighning strikes our house, the fire will burn all the better because of those old and dry palm things!