Palm Sunday 2025: Chinese Catholics Remind Us to Pass On the Faith From One Generation to the Next
- USCCA Digital Communications Coordinator
- 4 days ago
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By Father Rob Carbonneau, C.P., Ph.D.
As we celebrate Palm Sunday and carry our palms to places of reverence in our homes, I invite you to reflect upon these women and the child pictured above. As they carry on their faith traditions, consider for a moment the ways in which you pass on the traditions of your Catholic and Christian faith from your generation to the next.
What childhood traditions, learned from parents, siblings, grandparents, or relatives, are most memorable in your faith life today?
Which family traditions have impacted your journey of faith?
How has education strengthened your knowledge of faith and ability to teach others?
How has your language and culture enriched your expression of religious prayer and rituals of devotion such as the Rosary?
How has your church participation and Mass attendance helped you to create a community of faith and belief that brings the generations of young and old together?
How have the suffering, death, and Resurrection taken place in your family in ways that are passed on from one generation to the next?
May Palm Sunday 2025 remind you to be a source of love, warmth, and affection in passing your Catholic and Christian faith from your generation to the next.
Father Robert Carbonneau, C.P., served as Executive Director of the US-China Catholic Association from 2014—2017. At the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, he is historian and curator of the Passionist China Collection (PCC), an archive of over 16,000 photos and 60,000 documents, photographs, reports, films, and correspondence that reveal the twentieth century Passionist-based mission in Hunan, China.
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