[Magdalen] Palm Sunday procession leaders

[Ann Markle]

Curious -- why the switch back to purple, when all Holy Week is red?

Ann
​, who will also be doing the Palm Sunday procession indoors, and misses
the outdoor procession in Tennessee....​


The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 3/24/2015 11:18:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> revcphillips at gmail.com writes:
>
> We have  Molly, the donkey,>>>
>
> Palm Sunday processions in Minnesota during the olden days
> before global warming were almost always truncated and strictly
> an indoor phenomenon because there was too much piled up
> snow, even in April to allow any walking out of doors.
>
> The fun thing for Palm Sunday was always the procession in
> red vestments - cope for presider, and dalmatic and tunicle
> for deacon and subdeacon.  Then there was the dramatic
> changeover to Lenten Purple - chasuble, dalmatic, and tunicle
> simultaneously with a quick change of the high altar frontal
> from red to purple
>