Quoted from Learn Religions [1]:
Palm Sunday is a moveable feast, meaning the date changes every year based on the liturgical calendar. Palm Sunday always falls one week before Easter Sunday.
Quoted from Wikipedia [2]:
The Gospel of Matthew claims that this happened that the prophecy might be fulfilled of: Zechariah 9:9 "The Coming of Zion's King – See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey"....According to the Gospels, Jesus Christ rode on a donkey into Jerusalem, and the celebrating people there laid down their cloaks and small branches of trees in front of [H]im, singing part of Psalm 118: 25–26 – Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord.The symbolism of the donkey may refer to the Eastern tradition that it is an animal of peace, unlike the horse which is the animal of war. A king would have ridden a horse when he was bent on war and ridden a donkey to symbolize his arrival in peace. Jesus' entry to Jerusalem would have thus symbolized [H]is entry as the Prince of Peace, not as a war-waging king....
...Palm Sunday commemorates the entrance of Christ into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1–9) ... before [H]is arrest on Holy Thursday and [H]is crucifixion on Good Friday. It thus marks the beginning of Holy Week, the final week of Lent.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday, quoted without hyperlinks and references.
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