This day is one of the most important time in Christian faith as Palm Sunday is the day Jesus arrived in Jerusalem for the Passover. It is when a great crowds gathered on the street and waved palm leaf branches to welcome his arrival. It is a day of celebration and of sorrow as five days after Jesus was crucified.
Every year it has been a tradition to celebrate this day. Being raised practicing the Christian faith our family never miss this day and have our own palm leaf or Palaspas in the local linggo. Although there is no Jesus Christ to welcome this time, we do this to commemorate the day, wave our palm leaves in Church and have it blessed with Holy Water by the priest or the lay minister. Like how people during those time believed that they were blessed with the presence of Jesus.
But did you know that just a couple decades ago, probably two decades ago, there was this myth about the Palaspas and it’s use in the modern times after Christ?
It was believed that having a blessed palm leaf will protect you from the dark creatures of the underworld (LOL), the manananggal, aswang, tiktik, creatures like Dracula and Warewolf who eats human, suck a baby in the womb and suck blood.
I don’t know if such beings still exist or if they really did exist. I’ve never seen one and I don’t want to see one either. How about you have you seen one before?
Anyway, my daughter and I went to church today to have our Palm Leaf blessed. It was nice that I am able to bring her anywhere now and she does not throw any uncontrollable outburst or does not manifest much of her symptoms which is great. She enjoyed carrying the Palaspas and wave it like the others did. No pics though because there was a huge crowd and I don’t want my phone or cam get stolen. Better be safe than sorry.
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@ Petit yeah that was amusing indeed ward off the manananggals and engkantos and aswang with those palm leaf eh ako siguro hampasin nun di lalayasan ko ung ahahahaha!
@ Jan we got the palaspas after we went to the mall and do some grocery ng daughter ko. we were right on time blessing ng palaspas pagdating namin 🙂
Mamma Mia – I missed it. I was on shuttling from my blog to twitter to blog reading all day yesterday. I’m so hopeless. lol
i missed the palm sunday very badly yesterday. good thing you and your family never missed it. i will try harder next time. it amused me though blessed palm leaf could shun you away from the mananangals and engkantos..hahaha, perhaps in preparation for maricel soriano’s T2 movie.
you have a nice layout.