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Article: Palm Sunday today recalls return of Jesus.(Main News)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- April 9, 2006
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Byline: BRENDA PIQUERO TUAZON
Palm Sunday's observance today brings to a high note the penitential tone of Lent as Christians begin to observe the first day of the Holy Week waving palm fronds and olive branches inside churches and recalling Jesusa triumphant return to the city of Jerusalem in Biblical times.
From St. Peteras Basilica at the Vatican in Rome to every church of worship around the world, cathedral bells will peal for the last time today, its sound not to be heard until Easter Sunday. The silence of cathedral bells is one of several solemn traditional and liturgical acts in the Holy Week to stress the grief of the final days of Lent that saw ...