Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is celebrated here with a little more gusto than in the States. There is a real procession of the palms. Of course the weather here is a little more conducive to beginning the ceremony outside at this time of year.

We attended Mass at St. Monica’s yesterday to celebrate Palm Sunday. The girls themselves went out and cut the palms on Saturday for Mass. We gathered on the lower athletic field for the blessing of the palms. Father Maurice, our school chaplain, began the ceremony. After the blessing, palms were distributed to the students. Then we began the procession to the dining hall for Mass.

Mass was the regular Palm Sunday Mass with the reading of the passion of Christ. Just as in the States, many of the girls had taken part of their palm and already made crosses out of them by the end of Mass.