Palm Sunday

• Palms will be placed on a table in the sanctuary. I will bless them at the beginning of the Mass. I will have the people come forward up the center aisle. I will distribute the palms with the help of the deacon and the server and the lector if necessary. I will need Holy Water.
• Reading of the Passion. I will read the part of Christ. The Deacon will read the Narrator part. The lector will be the Voice. I will read from the altar. The Deacon will read from the small podium. The lector will stay at his/her place and read from the main podium.
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• Incense will be used at the beginning of the Mass.
• The Glory to God will be sung. During the singing, the altar bells will be run along with the chimes operated by the buttons on the altar.
• There will be no Washing of the Feet.
• Incense will be used at the Offertory. The deacon will incense me and the go the altar rail and incense the congregation. The deacon will hold on to the thurible and move to the front of the altar and kneel. He will incense at the Consecration.
• After Communion, the deacon will bring all but one ciborium into the sanctuary.
• After the final prayer, I will incense the Blessed Sacrament, receive the humeral veil, and the procession will begin.
• We will go down the left side aisle, across the back, and up the right side aisle.
• The Blessed Sacrament will be placed in the tabernacle. There will be a silent pause. We will all go into the sacristy.
• The altars will be stripped. The candles will be removed. The main tabernacle door will be left open. Any flowers will be removed as well.

• For the reading of the Passion, the same as Palm Sunday.