{"id":6874,"date":"2023-04-03T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2023-04-03T21:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T21:52:20","slug":"making-a-cross-from-four-palm-fronds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/making-a-cross-from-four-palm-fronds\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Cross From Four Palm Fronds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20190304ff\/AshFireG20110306sauk-centre-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian H. Gill's photo: burning last year's palm fronds, to be used for Ash Wednesday, 2011. Our Our Lady of the Angels church, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.\" align=\"right\">Here in central Minnesota, palm fronds are part of our Palm Sunday Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We generally take them home, fold them into the shape of a cross while they&#8217;re still green and pliable, and put them somewhere in the home where they&#8217;ll be visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before next year&#8217;s Lent, we&#8217;ll return them to the parish church, where they&#8217;re burned to make ashes for Ash Wednesday. That&#8217;s the idea, at any rate. Some years, including this one, I forget about bringing last year&#8217;s back. Letting that upset me is an option. But not, I think, a reasonable one. And that&#8217;s another topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend, my now-grown son asked my wife about the palm fronds he&#8217;d brought home from Mass. That reminded me that it&#8217;s been 11 years since I made a short (4:27) video, and 10 since I&#8217;ve shared it online. It&#8217;s a how-2, showing how we fold our fronds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a name=\"lanyards\"><\/a>Lanyards and a Video<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I7GRVH_6lKg\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My father-in-law worked as a cowboy at one point. That&#8217;s when he learned how to fold four strips of leather into a lanyard. Or would that be weave four strips? Anyway, the lanyard-making technique works with palm fronds, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy remembering where we learned this technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also like the way it produces something like a St. Andrew&#8217;s Cross. That&#8217;s the saltire, or X-shape, that&#8217;s one of European heraldry&#8217;s symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Andrew may or may not have been executed on an X-shaped cross. That incident happened in 60 A.D., but accounts that talk about a saltire-shaped cross only go back to around the 14th century.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/making-a-cross-from-four-palm-fronds\/#1\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, folding palm fronds can be fun. But the parish church doesn&#8217;t provide take-home fronds to encourage arts and crafts activities. We&#8217;re remembering what happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem and got a royal welcome. (<a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/21#48021001\">Matthew 21:1<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/21#48021011\">11<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/12#51012012\">John 12:12<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/12#51012015\">15<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More about Lent, Easter; and Jesus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/palm-sunday-2023-holy-week-begins\/\">Palm Sunday, 2023: Holy Week Begins<\/a>&#8220;<br>(April 2, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/lent-2023-prayer-and-prepping-for-easter\/\">Lent 2023: Prayer and Prepping For Easter<\/a>&#8220;<br>(February 22, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/advent-2022-remembering-the-big-picture\/\">Advent 2022: Remembering the Big Picture<\/a>&#8220;<br>(December 22, 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/just-who-is-this-jesus-person-and-who-does-he-think-he-is\/\">Just Who is This Jesus Person, and Who Does He Think He is?<\/a>&#8220;<br>(October 8, 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/jesus-the-ultimate-alpha-a-personal-view\/\">Jesus, the Ultimate Alpha: a Personal View<\/a>&#8220;<br>(April 4, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><sup><a name=\"1\"><\/a>1<\/sup> Saint Andrew and saltires:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wikipedia\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_the_Apostle\">Andrew the Apostle<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saltire\">Saltire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/01471a.htm\">St. Andrew<\/a><br>The Catholic Encyclopedia (1907) via New Advent LLC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in central Minnesota, palm fronds are part of our Palm Sunday Mass. 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