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Palm Sunday Napkin Rings
Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the
Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal
entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four
canonical Gospels.
In many Christian denominations, worship services on Palm
Sunday include a procession of the faithful carrying palms,
representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of
Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuring palms
in unfavorable climates led to their substitution with branches of
native trees, including box, olive, willow, and yew. The Sunday was
often named after these substitute trees, as in Yew Sunday, or by
the general term Branch Sunday.
In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus' triumphal
entry into Jerusalem takes place about a week before his
Resurrection.
Christian theologians believe that the symbolism is captured
prophetically in the Old Testament: Zechariah 9:9 "The Coming of
Zion's King – See, your king comes to you, righteous and
victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a
donkey". It suggests that Jesus was declaring he was the King of
Israel to the anger of the Sanhedrin.
According to the Gospels, Jesus Christ rode a donkey into
Jerusalem, and the celebrating people there laid down their
cloaks and small branches of trees in front of him, and sang part
of Psalm 118: 25–26 – ... Blessed is He who comes in the name of
the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord ....
The symbolism of the donkey may refer to the Eastern tradition
that it is an animal of peace, versus the horse, which is the animal
of war. A king would have ridden a horse when he was bent on
war and ridden a donkey to symbolize his arrival in peace. Jesus'
entry to Jerusalem would have thus symbolized his entry as the
Prince of Peace, not as a war-waging king.
“Flevit super illam” (He wept over it); by Enrique Simonet, 1892.
In Luke 19:41 as Jesus approaches Jerusalem, he looks at the city
and weeps over it (an event known as Flevit super illam in Latin),
foretelling the suffering that awaits the city in the events of the
destruction of the Second Temple.
In many lands in the ancient Near East, it was customary to cover
in some way the path of someone thought worthy of the highest
honour. The Hebrew Bible (2 Kings 9:13) reports that Jehu, son of
Jehoshaphat, was treated this way. Both the Synoptic Gospels and
the Gospel of John report that people gave Jesus this form of
honour. In the synoptics the people are described as laying their
garments and cut rushes on the street, whereas John specifies
fronds of palm (Greek phoinix). In Jewish tradition, the palm is
one of the Four Species carried for Sukkot, as prescribed for
rejoicing at Leviticus 23:40.
In the Greco-Roman culture of the Roman Empire, which strongly
influenced Christian tradition, the palm branch was a symbol of
triumph and victory. It became the most common attribute of the
goddess Nike or Victory For contemporary Roman observers, the
procession would have evoked the Roman triumph, when the
triumphator laid down his arms and wore the toga, the civilian
garment of peace that might be ornamented with emblems of the
palm. Although the Epistles of Paul refer to Jesus as "triumphing",
the entry into Jerusalem may not have been regularly pictured as
a triumphal procession in this sense before the 13th century In
ancient Egyptian religion, the palm was carried in funeral
processions and represented eternal life. The palm branch later
was used as a symbol of Christian martyrs and their spiritual
victory or triumph over death. In Revelation 7:9, the white-clad
multitude stand before the throne and Lamb holding palm
branches. "GOD SAID we shall call this day palm Sunday for it is
the day of passion"
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