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Article: Palm Sunday today starts Holy Week.(Main News)
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- April 8, 2001
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Palm Sunday today starts Holy Week
Workers to have long vacation
By BRENDA P. TUAZON The nation joins the rest of the Christian world as it takes a break from temporal concerns today, Palm Sunday, start of the observance of Holy Week.
The faithful will gather in churches all over the country this morning, waving palm fronds in memory of Jesus' entry into the city of Jerusalem astride a donkey.
For the last time today, cathedral bells will ring, never to peal again until Easter Sunday.
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At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II will lead Palm Sunday celebrations with a mass at the St. Peter's Square before an expected ...