Bishop Sweeney celebrates Palm Sunday Mass in Cathedral
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April 14, 2022
BEACON PHOTO | JOE GIGLIPALM SUNDAY MASS At Palm Sunday Mass April 10 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, Bishop Sweeney holds high a palm. With him at the altar are Father Jorge Castano, parochial vicar; Deacon German Vargas; Deacon Luis Gil; Msgr. Geno Sylva, rector of the cathedral and diocesan vicar for special projects; and Father Jared Brogan, diocesan director of the Office of Worship.Bishop Sweeney celebrates Palm Sunday Mass in Cathedral of St. John the BaptistPATERSON Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney served as the main celebrant and homilist at Mass on Palm Sunday April 10 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist here.
Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week, commemorates the day Jesus entered into Jerusalem as Savior and King. As Jesus rode a donkey into the town a large crowd gathered and laid palm branches and their cloaks across the road, giving Jesus royal treatment. The people shouted “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!” The congregation receives and holds blessed palm branches to mark the observance.
