Palm Sunday celebrated with palm fronds, miniature donkey
Judith O’hara balfe

Palm Sunday celebrated with palm fronds, miniature donkey

Parishioners from St. Joseph-Immaculate Conception Church, Grace Episcopal Church and Lyall Community Church met at the Thorne Community Center on Palm Sunday, March 23 to pray together. Palm Sunday celebrates the tradition which holds that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass, and a crowd of people waved palm fronds at him as he passed. At 28 years old, Bella Bella, a miniature donkey from the Two By Two Animal Haven Inc., Pleasant Valley, has been a part of this event for the last ten years. From left: Father Hartley Bancroft, Pastor of St. Joseph-Immaculate Conceeption Church, Makena Freeslick, 15, who attends Millbrook High School, Bella Bella, Father Matthew Calkins and the Reverend Thomas Fiet, Pastor of Lyall Church.

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