Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional.

Today's Sunday, April 13th, 2025, it's Palm Sunday, first class with the colors of red and violet.

In this episode, Hosanna Filio David, the symbolism and meaning behind Palm Sunday's liturgy,

the meditation 40 steps to Easter, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. But first, the

collect of today's Mass. Almighty eternal God, who, to provide mankind an example of humility for

it to imitate, willed that the Savior should assume our flesh

and suffer death upon the cross, mercifully grant that we may be found worthy of the lesson

of his endurance and the fellowship of his resurrection.

From the church's year of Father Leonard Gauphine, we offer the following instruction on Palm Sunday.

Why is this day called Palm Sunday? In memory of our Savior's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude

strewed palm branches before him, for which reason the church on this day blesses palms and carries them

in procession. Why are palms blessed? So that those who carry them with devotion or

keep them in their houses may receive protection of soul and body, as prayed for in the blessing.

That those who carry the palms may, by the means of the prayers of the church,

adorn their souls with good works, and thus, in spirit, meet the Savior. That through Christ,

whose members we are, we may conquer the kingdom of death and darkness, in spirit, meet the Savior, that through Christ whose members we are,

we may conquer the kingdom of death and darkness,

and be made worthy to share in his glorious resurrection and triumph and entrance into heaven.

St. Augustine writes of the palms,

They are the emblem of praise and sign of victory,

because the Lord by death conquered death, and with the sign of victory,

the cross, overcame the devil, the prince of death.

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