Palm Sunday
What it commemorates
Palm Sunday recalls the solemn entry of Christ into Jerusalem, when the people strewed branches before Him.
Place in the liturgical year
It is the last Sunday of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week.
In the 1962 Latin Mass Calendar
In the 1962 calendar it is kept as a day of the first class: Dominica II Passionis seu in Palmis. The 1962 calendar names it the Second Sunday of the Passion.
Modern Roman Calendar
The Modern Roman Calendar ranks it as a celebration with precedence over solemnities; its ranks differ from the four classes of 1962.