Palm weaving workshops join faith, culture for Palm Sunday | Chattanooga Times Free Press

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Many Christians around the world will be getting blessed palm or other tree branches this weekend. The palms are kept in places of honor in many homes for a year, when they're burned to make ashes for the beginning of Lent. It's a form of ratifying a pact by Mexican believers with the Catholic religion, an anthropologist says.

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Palm weaving workshops join faith, culture for Palm Sunday

MINNEAPOLIS — As new volunteers kept streaming into the Church of the Incarnation, Reynaldo Hidalgo prepped fresh palm fronds for them to weave into elaborate designs that will be blessed at services on Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity’s holiest week.

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Palm weaving workshops join faith, culture for Palm Sunday | Chattanooga Times Free Press

MINNEAPOLIS -- As new volunteers kept streaming into the Church of the Incarnation, Reynaldo Hidalgo prepped fresh palm fronds for them to weave into elaborate designs that will be blessed at services on Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity's holiest week.

2 months ago

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