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Holy Week
Palm Sunday / Passion Sunday
Also called: Domingo de Ramos (Spanish), Flowery Sunday, Hosanna Sunday, Entry of Christ into Jerusalem
29 March 2026
All Christians
Palm Sunday opens Holy Week with a paradox — crowds wave palm branches and shout 'Hosanna!' as Jesus enters Jerusalem, but the same week ends with his crucifixion. Children often receive blessed palm crosses to take home; in the Philippines, families weave elaborate palm decorations.
The Passion story is read in full during the service. Eden lists Easter pilgrimages to Jerusalem where you can walk the Palm Sunday route down the Mount of Olives.
At a glance
- Type
- major feast
- Date type
- Moveable (changes with Easter)
- Regions
- Global
- Themes
- Passion & Death, Life of Christ
- Liturgical colour
- Red
Common questions
Palm Sunday is observed on 29 March 2026. Moveable feasts shift each year; fixed feasts stay on the same calendar date.
The beginning of Holy Week, commemorating Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, greeted by crowds waving palm branches (John 12:12–15). Congregations typically process with palm fronds (or pussy willow branches in Russia; olive branches in some Mediterranean countries) that are blessed during the liturgy. The liturgy also incorporates the reading of the Passion narrative, which give
It is associated with All Christians. It falls in the Holy Week season of the liturgical year.
