Palm Sunday
On Palm Sunday 1956 I was baptized a Roman Catholic at the age of ten. I received my "First Holy Communion" on Holy Thursday of that same week. Fr. Charles Cremona baptized both me and my sister. That year it was 25 March, but I selected to celebrate Palm Sunday as my anniversary because of the closeness of Holy Thursday. It was only when I moved to Baltimore that I realized that 25 March is also Greek Independence Day.We traditionally have at the end of the Liturgy a procession of children carrying palms. I think that both the children and the adults enjoy it.
Although I was baptized on Greek Independence Day, I do not celebrate my baptism on that day. But today I do celebrate Greek Independence Day when I can. As a military veteran I understand very well our freedom. Today I frequently thank men and women in uniform for protecting our freedom. In some countries I would be jailed for wearing the Roman collar.
