Pinoys join Palm Sunday rites to welcome the Holy Week

Catholic devotees nationwide troop to churches in observance of the traditional Palm Sunday rites to welcome the Holy Week.

Believers bring palm fronds as they join the Palaspas blessing rite during Palm Sunday Masses.

Catholic devotees wave palm fronds during the Palm Sunday blessing at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Sta. Maria Tungkong-Mangga Road, San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan on Sunday, April 9, 2017. —DANNY PATA

Catholic devotees wave palm fronds during the Palm Sunday blessing at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Sta. Maria Tungkong-Mangga Road, San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan on Sunday, April 9, 2017. —DANNY PATA

The religious tradition traces its roots from the Biblical account on the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem where Jews cheered Him by waving palm leaves along his path.

His entry to Jerusalem was the inauguration of his Passion, Death and Resurrection. —LBG, GMA News