Article: HOLY WEEK BEGINS WITH PALM FRONDS

PHOTO (Color) Country Lane Florist employees Linda Musgrave (right) and Jody Musgrave separate plam leaves at the Chesterton shop Friday. (Color) (MICHAEL MCARDLE/POST-TRIBUNE)

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Residents of Jerualem waved palm branches as Jesus rode into town on a donkey. Within a week, the crowd that cheered his arrival would cheer his crucifixion. Almost 2000 years later, Christians still celebrate the final week of Lent with palm leaves.

Worshippers across Northwest Indiana will carry palm fronds Sunday - Palm Sunday- to commemorate Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem.

"It's a tradition," said the Rev. Frank Torres of Holy Rosary in Gary. ...

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