What Do You Do With Your Palm After Palm Sunday Mass?

[tinytherese]

I'm not sure where to put the one I have. (I attended today.) A lot of people don't know that it's a sacramental and throw it away.

[Basilisa Marie]

I put it behind my crucifix on my wall, and switch it out every year. The old one gets buried.

[Winchester]

dat thread title

[The Bus Station]

I plan to plant the palm in my palm, pal

[MissyP89]

I put them behind my pictures. My fiance's family puts them under their mattresses, which I've never heard of, but I now have some under there too. LOL

[CrossCuT]

Sometimes I keep it in my car although I like the bed idea

[ChristinaTherese]

I make them into crosses. Then the crosses just lay around. I like the bed idea too, though.

[maximillion]

We make ours into crosses, then mine goes by my mini shrine.

[EmilyAnn]

I make mine into crosses and keep them around my room.

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

our palms come as crosses. i blue tac it to my bedroom door.

[Lil Red]

my mom would make palm crosses every year, then tuck them by the family crucifix. the old ones would get burned or buried. 

[i<3LSOP]

I make mine into crosses and some behind picture frames.

 

I thought the title of this thread said What Do You Do With Your Sunday After Palm Sunday.  :think:

[Selah]

I make them into crosses. Then the crosses just lay around. I like the bed idea too, though.

 

How? I've been sitting here trying for a half hour lol. HALP.

[HisChildForever]

My parish collects them after a certain point.

[Fidei Defensor]

I put them in a vase and put them on my home altar.

[ChristinaTherese]

How? I've been sitting here trying for a half hour lol. HALP.

I'm not sure I can explain how I do it with words alone, but I'll try. (It was taught to me by my brother and to my brother by some friends.)

 

First, your palms need to not be dried out. You might want to split them down the middle if they have a fold (like most do) and maybe remove the hard part.

Then, choose how long you want the cross to be, and fold down from there.

At the point where the cross beam ought to be, fold the palm at a 90 degree angle, and then fold it back over to make the beam go to both sides evenly.

Then fold it back, and split the remaining part down the center and wrap it in a kind of x around the middle part of the cross so that it doesn't fall apart.

Tuck the remaining ends into the rest of the cross so that they're hidden.

You might want to put the palm under a book so it doesn't warp while it dries. If you don't care if it's flat, don't bother.

 

When you choose the first folding point, I'd guess that 1/3 of the way through the palm would be a good first try, just because you don't want to not leave enough to finish with. But then, I haven't ever looked to see just how far I end up going. Also, you probably won't make a good one on your first try. Just try again and again, and you might get the hang of it. (You probably will if I didn't fail at giving directions, which I may very well have failed at doing.)

[SilentJoy]

There are some good YouTube videos on how to make palm crosses; it might be helpful to watch someone else do it first, and then you can choose whose design you like better.

 

I make crosses and put them behind crucifixes. I usually give one cross to my mom, maybe one to a friend if there's extra.

[ChristinaTherese]

Also, I looked for pictures and found some examples just by googling "palm cross". I can't paste URLs in here for some reason, at least not in Internet Explorer, so you'll have to figure that out on your own. And googling directions might prove helpful as well.

[ChristinaTherese]

This is my last bit on the topic, I promise. I just found some directions for what I was trying to say with pictures! Here's the link: http://papernpearlz.com/bsf/celebrations/palm-sunday/

[SilentJoy]

The first Sunday I ever came to the Mass on purpose, by myself, happened to be Palm Sunday, right before I entered RCIA.

 

I had told the adult faith director, "I want to convert to Catholicism because Augustine, papacy, Ignatius, GK Chesterton, Mary, scripture, Eucharist, beauty, truth!" and he said. "Okay, do you go to Mass?"

Me: "Uhhhh...no."

Him: "Well, that would be a good place to start! Find a Catholic friend and ask them if you can go with them."

 

I didn't have a Catholic friend and I didn't want to call a Catholic customer and the man said I was s'posed to go WITH someone so I just didn't go for a month until I realized that was a dumb rule and I could probably just go by myself.

 

So a year later, I had several palm crosses left over from my first Mass, and the RCIA folks said that there would be a basket in church where I could leave them, and I realized later that the only basket I found turned out to be for a totally different thing and every now and then I STILL see the ziplock bag of old palm crosses sitting somewhere around the church, waiting for someone to figure out what to do with them...