Palm Sunday at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church

By: Yiting Sun

St. Mary’s Orthodox Church in the Bedford Park neighborhood mainly serves an Indian community of worshippers. It was established in 1972. As time passed, members of the congregation gradually moved to New Jersey, upstate New York, or Pennsylvania. But distance did not cut their ties to the church. On Apr. 17, they gathered again for Palm Sunday.

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Everyone received a palm frond. They are supposed to bring it back to the church on Christmas Eve and burn it.

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