Palm Sunday: we enter the house with a green branch and pray like this ...
Today, March 24, the Church commemorates Palm Sunday where the blessing of the olive branches takes place as usual.
Unfortunately for the world pandemic all liturgical celebrations are suspended therefore I advise you to create your own personal rite. If you don't have an olive tree, take any green branch and put it in the house as a symbol, pray and listen to Mass on TV.
Jesus is always with us.
PALM SUNDAY
ENTERING THE HOUSE WITH THE BLESSED OLIVE TREE OR ANY GREEN BRANCH
By the merits of your Passion and Death, Jesus, may this blessed olive tree be the symbol of your Peace in our home. may it also be a sign of our peaceful adherence to the order proposed to your Gospel.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
PRAYER TO JESUS WHO ENTERS JERUSALEM
Truly my beloved Jesus, You enter another Jerusalem, as you enter my soul. Jerusalem did not change having received you, on the contrary it became more barbaric because it crucified you. Ah, never allow such a misfortune, that I receive you and, while all the passions and bad habits contracted remain in me, it becomes worse! But I beg you with the most intimate of my heart, that you deign to annihilate and destroy them totally, changing my heart, mind and will, so that they are always aimed at loving you, serving you and glorifying you in this life, to then enjoy them eternally in the next.
HOLY WEEK
During Holy Week the Church celebrates the mysteries of salvation brought to fulfillment by Christ in the last days of his life, starting with his messianic entry into Jerusalem.
Lenten time continues until Holy Thursday.
The Easter Triduum begins from the evening meal "in the Lord's Supper", which continues on Good Friday "in the Lord's Passion" and on Holy Saturday has its center in the Easter Vigil and ends at Vespers on the Sunday of Resurrection.
Holy Week holidays, from Monday to Thursday inclusive, take precedence over all other celebrations. It is appropriate that in these days neither Baptism nor Confirmation should be celebrated. (Paschalis Sollemnitatis n.27)