Palm Sunday 2019 Photopost (Part 3)

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For our third (but still not final!) Palm Sunday photopost, we start with two examples of the ceremony celebrated according to surviving medieval Uses. The first was done at the church of St Joseph in Troy, New York, by members of the Calced Carmelite Order, which preserved its ancient Use after the Council of Trent. The second was at Holy Name in Providence, Rhode Island, where Palm Sunday is traditionally celebrated according to the proper liturgical Use of the See of Braga. (For a more detailed explanation, see this post from last year, which explains why, and gives details of the ceremony.) We also have two celebrations in the Byzantine Rite, and a video of the complete ceremony from the Basilique Notre-Dame in Fribourg, Switzerland, staffed by the priests of the FSSP’s generalate house, which has a really remarkable choir.

There will be one more photopost of Palm Sunday before we start in the ceremonies of the Triduum; more contributions are always welcome. (Send to [email protected]; please see this post for some guidelines to help with the process.)

Like many medieval Uses, that of Braga has a station in the middle of procession, at which the antiphon Ave Rex noster is sung three times, and everyone kneels before the Cross. Here we see the celebrant also scattering olive leaves while the antiphon is sung; similar customs were also very common according to the various Uses.