Here's what you need to know about Easter 2025. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which falls on Wednesday, March 5 this year.

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover commemorates the ...

Easter Sunday may still be more than two months away, but the Easter season kicks off in less than a month with the arrival of Ash Wednesday. Last year, Ash Wednesday 2024 fell on Valentine’s ...

Easter Sunday always occurs on the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, the full moon that occurs on or after the March or spring equinox, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. In the Gregorian ...

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

Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, will kick off a late start to the 2025 Lenten season — from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday ... common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from ...

the way of calculating the date of Easter was established. However, over the centuries, changes to the calendar resulted in discrepancies between the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox churches ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic ... and its witness, Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first ...

Unlike other holidays, the date that Easter Sunday falls on changes year to year ... It is also common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during the Lenten ...

Fat Tuesday and the Mardi Gras celebrations will kick off a late start to the 2025 Lenten season — from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday ... common practice in the Catholic church to abstain ...

If you celebrate Easter, you might've noticed it falls later than usual this year. The holiday, which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ for Christians, is preceded by a season of ...