Feb. 14 marks the start of Lent, a 40-day religious celebration observed by many Christian denominations, including Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox traditions. Every year, the celebration begins ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...

Lent is the period of six weeks (40 days not including Sundays) leading up to Easter, the most important festival in the Christian calendar. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday. The last week of Lent is ...

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 ...

According to the Almanac, Easter Sunday changes every year because it is fixed to a solar calendar ... March 5 and ends on Thursday, April 17. It lasts six weeks before Easter. Lent is the ...

This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in March, almost a full ... on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar,” the almanac says. “In the Christian religion, the Last Supper ...