Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Easter 2025 season is late this year. 'Fat Tuesday' Mardi Gras will give way to Ash Wednesday and kick off the start of Lent. Here's when Lent begins ...

Lent 2025: when does it start and why do Christians observe it? - Deciding what to give up for Lent is a personal choice, ...

The observance marks the start of lent, the season leading up to Easter; it's is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with Advent, Christmas, Easter, and Ordinary ...

Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, falls on April 18, 2025. The holiday remembers the day that Jesus Christ suffered and ...

On the first day of Lent, the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., will host an exhibit on the Shroud of ...

Mardi Gras will come to the University of Missouri next month, in part thanks to a campus Catholic parish. Newman Parish will ...

It also marks the beginning of the countdown toward Easter, as people that practice the religion will also be observing Lent leading up to the holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the ... according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. USA Today adds that during Lent, Catholics and Christians ...

It lasts six weeks before Easter. Lent is the religious period of fasting ... It is also common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during the Lenten season ...