Orthodox Christians will celebrate worldwide the Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem that is also called the Palm Sunday. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will lead a divine liturgy at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Sunday.
This day reminds people of the event, which took place two millenniums ago, when Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem several days before his sufferings of crucifixion. People greeted him with flowers, and children paved his way with palm branches. In the East the custom to hold a cross-bearing procession with newborns is still observed on this day. In Moscow this touching procession is held at the metochion of the Patriarchate of Antioch at the Church of Archangel Michael near the Chistye Prudy boulevards in downtown Moscow.
In Jerusalem the patriarch of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church i
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s leading a magnificent cross-bearing procession on the day. The Israeli police halt the traffic along the route of the procession. The flock carrying the holiday icon of the Entrance of the Lord in Jerusalem meets the patriarch in Bethany, from where the Christ began his ceremonial way to the Holy City.
Then the procession carrying palm branches to the accompaniment of festive prayers is going along the way of the Savior - from the Mount of Olives, going down to the Gethsemane Garden, enters into the Old City of Jerusalem and ends its way at the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God.
Orthodox Christians will celebrate worldwide the Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem that is also called the Palm Sunday. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will lead a divine liturgy at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Sunday.
