Read the Passion on Palm Sunday 13 AprilI am regularly asked: why do we read the Passion account on Palm Sunday? This latter began with a Solemn Procession of Palms (with Matthew’s Gospel version); the Mass itself proclaimed Matthew’s Passion. We now have the Sunday before Easter Day, beginning Holy Week, being Passion Sunday with the Liturgy of Palms. Older forms in Church History tended to have a procession with palms with the Palms Gospel read and a Eucharist with Matthew’s Passion. The earlier approaches have been restored in seeing the Sixth Sunday in Lent as being Passion Sunday with the Liturgy of Palms.