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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 10:44 am
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The whole palm thing seems really strange when you're in...say...florida. They're just handing out yard waste.
Leave it to the church to find every possible way to fleece their parishioners.
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 11:24 am
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 12:46 pm
Never had anything to do with it, most of the time i was totally unaware of it. (why, is it happening again?)
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 1:02 pm
Up until coronavirus, it was cocaine and hookers.
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 2:10 pm
I remember the nuns handing out the palm crosses on the Friday at school... and that was it, forgot about it till we went back to school on Monday.
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 3:30 pm
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.
Some of my friends' houses would have the palms hung on the wall usually near, or on, some religious picture...like the Sacred Heart or Christ on the cross.
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 3:40 pm
(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!
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 5:28 pm
(April 5, 2020 at 3:40 pm)Dundee Wrote: (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!
No, the magic sky fairy will protect you
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 5:53 pm
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RE: Palm Sunday Traditions
April 5, 2020 at 6:48 pm
(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.
Some of my friends' houses would have the palms hung on the wall usually near, or on, some religious picture...like the Sacred Heart or Christ on the cross.
During my last year in Uni my housemate nailed one to the wall and declared that the house was 'clean'...
He never used any cleaning materials or bin bags during the entire year. The lower floor wound up looking like landfill...
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