Before the reforms of the Book of Common Prayer 1979, the Sunday of the Passion was a week before Palm Sunday. The current prayer book combines these themes into one day, as do the modern Roman, Lutheran, and other rites. I sometimes wish we kept them as separate commemorations, but alas, I am not on the Standing Liturgical Comission!
Collect at the Liturgy of the Palms
Assist us mercifully with your help, O Lord God of our
salvation, that we may enter with joy upon the contemplation
of those mighty acts, whereby you have given us life and
immortality; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect at the Mass
Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the
human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take
upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross,
giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant
that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share
in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. Amen.
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