And signs of spring, too, and rebirth and renewal.” Her husband, Michael Cusack, said the church had observed ... It is why we call the Friday before Easter Good Friday,” he said.

Parishioners are marked with the sign of a ... the Sunday before Easter Sunday, celebrates Jesus entering Jerusalem. Parishioners celebrate this day with palm leaves in church services.

This year, the Archdiocese of S. Paul and Minneapolis began collecting information from its 185 parishes about the number of ...