Chicago celebrates Palm Sunday as Lent ends, Holy Week begins

CHICAGO (WLS) — After two years of a pandemic, with many faith-based organizations having restricted or streaming providers, this 12 months’s Holy Week for Chicago’s trustworthy and non secular leaders holds much more that means and highly effective reflection main as much as Easter.

Throughout town, Palm Sunday marked the ultimate week of Lent and the start of Christian Holy Week.

A Palm Sunday procession in Buena Park at Saint Mary of the Lake and Our Woman of Lourdes Parish concerned 20 males carrying two 4-feet-fall statues of Jesus and Mom Mary for a mile all through the neighborhood.

For training Christians, today additionally marks Jesus Christ’s entry into Jerusalem.

“That is the time the place they went and walked when Jesus was coming into city,” Isaac Zuniga mentioned.

On the Prepare dinner County Jail Sunday, a gaggle of dozens of individuals marched for 2 miles across the correctional facility with palms of their arms.

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March organizers mentioned this procession each celebrates Palm Sunday whereas providing prayers for peace and therapeutic for “all affected by the felony justice system.”

“Being in jail is an expertise that is extraordinarily isolating. It is extraordinarily traumatizing,” mentioned Emily Cortina, outreach and formation coordinator with Kolbe Home Jail Ministry.

The Kolbe Home Jail Ministry, joined by supporters and a few relations of these at the moment incarcerated, to share the message of Palm Sunday and instill religion and perception of change for these behind bars.

“One in every of our guiding scriptures, I referred to as ‘the homes’ when Jesus says, ‘I used to be in jail and also you visited me,’ proper? So, we actually consider that once we go and go to people who’re detained right here in Prepare dinner County Jail, we aren’t simply hoping to carry Jesus — carry the gospel — however we’re assembly Jesus there,” Cortina mentioned.

Marchers paused at totally different places across the jail with the hope inmates catch a glimpse of the assist ready for them on the skin.

“It is extraordinarily significant for the parents on the within, and there is many who know that we’re strolling immediately they usually’ll be attempting to get any glimpse they’ll of the road to allow them to see us strolling by,” Cortina mentioned.

Subsequent Sunday, for many who will have a good time mass nearly, Holy Title Mass will air at midday on ABC7. You can too watch on-line or on our ABC7 Chicago streaming app.