This would give the new pontiff more than a week to prepare for the March 24 Palm Sunday celebrations.
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Less than a week away is Palm Sunday, the holiday that kicks off Holy Week, which culminates in Easter celebrations.
Kicking off Holy Week is the lively and colourful celebration of Palm Sunday, when the grey St Peter's Square turns into a sea of green.
The coming week, which leads up to Easter Sunday, will be a busy one for the new pontiff, starting with Palm Sunday Mass.
This would give the new pontiff a little over a week to prepare for the next mass, Palm Sunday celebrations, on March 24.
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For his part, Pope Francis will begin the Church's most important liturgical season on Sunday with a Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square.
At the end of Palm Sunday's service, Francis made his first foray into delivering greetings in various languages, with brief words in French, English and German.
Palm Sunday recalls Jesus' entry into Jerusalem but its Gospel also recounts how he was betrayed by one of his apostles and ultimately sentenced to death on a cross.
Hot enough to melt the church bells, the Palm Sunday fire peeled five centuries of whitewash off the walls, exposing enormous Gothic frescoes painted when the building was erected.
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The concert functions as something of a preview for the Christian tradition of Holy Week Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday but the music is not exclusively for the Tim Tebows of the world.
When Gates decided to propose to Melinda in 1993, he secretly diverted the chartered plane they were taking home from Palm Springs one Sunday night to land in Omaha.
Revolutionary (Pletcher, Javier Castellano): Withers winner breezed 4 furlongs in 49.85 Sunday at Palm Meadows.
Shanghai Bobby (Todd Pletcher, Rosie Napravnik): Worked 5 furlongs in 1:00.90 Sunday at Palm Meadows in prepping for final race before Derby.
For an unusual experience- although you would not call it authentic - go see Thai Elvis perform at the Palm's restaurant (www.palmsthai.com) every Wednesday through Sunday nights.
On Sunday, before a capacity crowd at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, the former advisor to George McGovern and Jimmy Carter depicted the election as one the Republicans lost more than the Democrats won.
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