[LIVE] Palm Sunday celebration opens Holy Week for Catholics

Archbishop Charles Scicluna is celebrating Mass at St John’s Co-Cathedral to commemorate Christ’s entry into Jerusalem at the start of Christianity's most important week in the liturgical calendar

14 April 2019, 10:06am
by Staff Reporter

Palm Sunday marks the start of the Catholic church's Holy Week celebrations (Photo: Curia Communications Office/Ian Noel Pace)

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Catholics in Malta, today join in the church’s commemoration of Palm Sunday, which marks the start of the Holy Week celebrations.

Archbishop Charles Scicluna will be celebrating Mass at St John’s Co-Cathedral, during which the blessing of palm fronds and olive bracnhes will take place.

Palm Sunday marks the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.

MaltaToday is joining the ceremony live. It starts at 10.30am.

This service is provided by the Curia Communications Office.

Over the coming week MaltaToday will be joining other live feeds of key celebrations by the Catholic church in Malta.