{"id":151917,"date":"2026-03-30T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:10:06","slug":"faithful-celebrate-palm-sunday-at-scrantons-cathedral-of-saint-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151917\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful celebrate Palm Sunday at Scranton&#8217;s Cathedral of Saint Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community members in Scranton celebrated Palm Sunday, receiving &#8216;palm fronds&#8217; to participate in the reenactment of Christ&#8217;s arrival in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Community members attended mass at the Cathedral of Saint Peter along Wyoming Avenue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the mass, churchgoers received &#8216;palm fronds&#8217; as a way to participate in the reenactment of Christ&#8217;s arrival in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Faithfuls carry blessed palms as a symbol of peace and victory exactly one week before Christ would rise from the dead on the first Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members in Scranton celebrated Palm Sunday, receiving &#8216;palm fronds&#8217; to participate in the reenactment of Christ&#8217;s arrival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-151917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}