Palm Sunday – The second in the COVID Era

Looks like we will celebrate another Palm Sunday under COVID mandates and protocols. All I have to say about that is this:

In Ohio, our governor refuses to lift mandates until we get under 50/100,000 cases. We are stuck at something like 146. That’s because he counts PROBABLE cases of COVID in the statistics. It’s spring and the beginning of allergy season here, so our probable cases are keeping us plateaued and maybe even rising a little. Our governor also counts for two weeks instead of one week that the CDC recommends. That also boosts the numbers. You can learn more about all of that here.

So I’ll say this. Mr. Pete and I are both in our early 60s. We had COVID, and just like the other 98 percent of survivors, made it through without much incident. We have been to church every week since last Memorial Day. Mr. Pete sings with the small vocal group there. I have taken my daughter to weeks and weeks of cross country and track practices and I have taught in a homeschool co-op every week. So I will go to mass this weekend as well.

I don’t say any of this to virtue signal, or Mass-shame anyone. But there is a lot of fear out there. Some of my friends still aren’t leaving their homes. I think it’s important to hear from other people that are living their lives as normally as possible, especially when it comes to going to church.

Ways to commemorate Palm Sunday

This is the Sunday that would include the reading of Christ’s passion including the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane means olive. Therefore tomorrow would be a good day to serve a salad with dressing made from olive oil, or to garnish your food with olives or include olives on a veggie tree.

Sprinkle Coconut on your ice cream or desert since they grow on palm trees.

Here are some cute crafts to do starting on Palm Sunday – Holy Week in Hand prints

And the popular Palm leaf cross – How to make a cross out of a palm leaf.

Other Palm Leaf Crafts.

And it would be a good day to record what it was like to live through Palm Sunday this year without palms or mass in church – Living through History

For more craft ideas and inspiration for the day, check out my Pinterest board.Elena LaVictoirePalm SundayFollow On