On April 1, on the feast of the Lord's Entry into Jerusalem, in Russia called Palm Sunday, a children's procession will take place in the northern capital. Rosbalt informs that pupils of Sunday schools of St. Petersburg parishes will take part in it. Led by the clergy, hundreds of children will walk along the avenues and streets of the city with prayers and chants. In their hands they will carry palm branches, which will be delivered to St. Petersburg especially for this solemn procession. (Usually they are replaced by branches of willows in Russia.) The procession will begin at 9 o'clock in the morning, immediately after the end of the festive divine service in St. Isaac's Cathedral, which will be headed by the ruling bishop - Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsonuphius. The Lord's Entry into Jerusalem is one of the twelve (twelve most important after Easter) feasts. Christians celebrate it on the sixth Sunday of Great Lent, a week before the day of the Resurrection of Christ. On this day, the Church recalls the gospel events associated with the last entry into the Holy City in the Savior's earthly life, when he, surrounded by his disciples, rode a young colt through its streets filled with jubilant people. People greeted Him with enthusiastic shouts of 'Hosanna!' And they spread palm branches under the feet of the walkers. Among those who went out to meet the Lord that day, there were especially many children.
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