March 1, 2022
Among the world's supply shortage, add to it the palm frond.
Rules to contain the spread of the coronavirus limited the number of people attending Holy Week celebrations such as Palm Sunday around the world in 2020 and 2021. That meant fewer palms to burn to provide the ashes smudged on people's foreheads on Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.
At the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, which was closed to the public for Holy Week celebrations the past two years, friars invited the public to see the burning of fronds Feb. 27, which included fronds from 2019.
Source: As pandemic's limits ease, palms burn in preparation for Ash Wednesday