Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. This year, Easter is Sunday, ...

Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday — celebrations will precede Ash Wednesday, and the start of the Lenten season for 2025. Ash ...

Easter Sunday may still be more than two months away, but the Easter season kicks off in less than a month with the arrival ...

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his ...

Christians observe the holiday to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death ... This year, the spring equinox ...

Easter is a few months away, but several other religious holidays, like Ash Wednesday, are coming up. Here's when Fat Tuesday ...

It lasts six weeks before Easter. Lent is the religious period of fasting and repentance for Christians. People who observe Lent do so to honor what is said in the Bible to be Jesus' 40 days ...

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.

Easter is a “movable feast” tied to the spring equinox and a lunar cycle. Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on ... up to Easter called Lent, falls on March 5 this year.

Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried and on the third day after his death — Easter Sunday — he rose from the dead. Prior to Easter, many Christians and Catholics will observe Lent ...