Mounted on a donkey, the priest moved slowly as boys and young men waved palm branches and sang hymns to Jesus during a Palm Sunday procession in a central Indian parish.
Fr Thomas Rajamanikyam and his parishioners at St Joseph Church in Nanda Nagar, Indore Diocese enacted the biblical account of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem, an event Catholics commemorate on Palm Sunday, which this year fell on March 25.
The parish priest on a donkey leading the Palm Sunday procession surprised many. Kanti Kumrawat, a grandmother and parishioner, said it was first time they had such a procession and never heard of any other parish in the vicinity having commemorated the event in such a way.
