Here's what to know about Easter 2025, Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and when lent starts this year. This year, Easter Sunday is observed on Sunday, April 20. Easter is the holiest day in the ...

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on the cross, per BBC.

Here's what to know about the key dates surrounding Easter, including Fat Tuesday, Lent and Good Friday. Easter will be Sunday, April 20, 2025. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

16 February, Proper 2: Jeremiah 17.5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15.12-20; Luke 6.17-26 LUKE’s version of Jesus’s Beatitudes (or “blessings”) challenges the more famous version recorded in Matthew (5.1 ...

It also marks the beginning of the countdown toward Easter, as people that practice the religion will also be observing Lent leading up ... the previous year's Palm Sunday, which are burned ...

When is Fat Tuesday in 2025? Fat Tuesday, regarded as the last celebration before the start of Lent leading up to Easter, will take place on March 4 this year, according to the Mardi Gras New ...

OVERBURDENED clergy should not allow Lent groups to squat toadlike on their souls, bringing only dread in expectation of the increased workload in the weeks before Easter. The groups can be ...

We find, as far back as the fifth century ... as they do in Lent. There are only in the Offices for the saints, whose feasts occur between November 14 and the Sunday nearest Christmas, frequent ...

Lent begins each year on Ash Wednesday, 46 days before Easter Sunday. This year, Lent will begin on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025. Lent consists of six weeks leading up to Easter and ends either on ...

"Go out into the deep." Think about it, that's what the son of a carpenter said to professional fishers. They did it, perhaps just to humor him — and took in the biggest catch of their lives.