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

[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...

[AugustineA]

I had to work today so I brought them to work with me, where I tried failed at making a cross. However, some Polish girl from the office got super excited to see a Catholic at work. Now they will be added to my prayer corner. 

[SilentJoy]

I had to work today so I brought them to work with me, where I tried failed at making a cross. However, some Polish girl from the office got super excited to see a Catholic at work. Now they will be added to my prayer corner. 

 

Oh no! You should have met here a couple months ago, she might have brought you some paczki!
 

[marigold]

We had ours sprinkled and processed with them. Father said to put them in the icon corner because they've been blessed. When they have gathered so much dust that you can't stand the sight of them any more, you put them in the ground, not burn them. We don't burn blessed things. My friend palmed hers off on me instead. :)

[MIKolbe]

Tried to make a cross out of them for 5 minutes.

 

Handed it to my wife.

 

She made it in 20 seconds.

 

<_<

[Winchester]

Tried to make a cross out of them for 5 minutes.

 

Handed it to my wife.

 

She made it in 20 seconds.

 

<_<

[Selah]

Tried to make a cross out of them for 5 minutes.

 

Handed it to my wife.

 

She made it in 20 seconds.

 

<_<

 

I know that feel <_<

[Anastasia13]

I wish I had one...

[Anastasia13]

Tried to make a cross out of them for 5 minutes.

 

Handed it to my wife.

 

She made it in 20 seconds.

 

<_<

 

Here is how I made one to help church get ready the other. Cut it into three sections. One long skinny one, one short and wide, and one not so short and wide. Make a loop with the longer wide one but leave some overlap with the tails. Fold it down with the overlap section. Take the shorter one and do the same. The overlap with the tails meet-these should line up with each other to form a cross. Staple this. Take the skinny one and wrap it around the center front several times (well, wrap around the center because you want to cross the front several times). This should crisscross. Slip a tail under a wrapped tail of this and tighten. Repeat with the other tail. This should hold well enough.

[Anastasia13]

 

Tried to make a cross out of them for 5 minutes.

 

Handed it to my wife.

 

She made it in 20 seconds.

 

<_<

 

 

Totally looks like you.

[AugustineA]

Are you really posting at 4:14 in the morning.. buncha weirdos.