Palm Sunday

 Palm Sunday

Today we gathered outside Cathedral House for the opening Gospel reading and blessing of palms.  We then processed into the Cathedral to listen to the Passion according to St Luke.

Bishop blessing palms with Holy Water

We process waving palms and singing Hosanna

Our children came for their own preparation where we sang Hosanna, waved palms. In Luke's account of Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem the crowd through cloaks as Jesus passed by, we did the same, however, our Jesus didn't ride on a donkey! 

We then went through the events of Holy Week. To help the children get a sense of the passing of each day, we all went to sleep and were awoken by a cockerel, which we will be talking about on Friday when we remember Peter's denial of Jesus and journey with Jesus as we pray the stations of the cross. 

Children sleeping after hearing about what Jesus
did during the start of Holy Week.

We then went to a room prepared for the 'Last Supper' and talked about how Jesus washed the feet of the disciples as an example of service, the children shared ways they could help serve other people.  Next we listened to the words of the Last Supper and how some of the children will be receiving their First Holy Communion in June. 

Children watched as we washed feet as a reminder of Jesus' example of service

Drying the feet with great care

The children then shared what they could do to serve other people.

• Helping their mums
• Tidying up 
• Looking out for someone who is lonely at school
• Collecting hymn books after Mass

We talked about the unleavened bread Jesus
had at the Last Supper

We then listened to a song of reflection reminding us of the words Jesus said and talked about when we hear those words in Mass.