Domingo de Ramos, or Palm Sunday, one week before Easter Sunday, is a day when Mexicans buy palm decorations and take them to the church to get blessed. A great place to photograph this tradition is at the Basilica de Guadalupe. If you go early enough, the light is perfect. Outside the Basilica itself are many small stands teeming with people selling and buying "las palmas", contrasting with the quiet solemnity in the church.A procession takes place and people jostle for a front-line position to get their palm blessed with holy water. Then they go into the Basilica to hear the special mass.All over the city you can see people selling palm decorations, some of them very elaborate. Why "palmas"? They are remembering when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey and the crowds waved palms. Once blessed, these "palmas" will be kept in their houses, possibly even until next Easter.
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