Lent, Easter and Ash Wednesday

Why is Easter 2025 so late? Here's the dates for Easter, Lent, and Ash Wednesday
The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent will be on Wednesday, March 5. Lent will end on Holy Thursday, April 17. Good Friday will be the next day, on Friday, April 18.
When is Lent, Ash Wednesday, Easter Sunday in 2025? Dates to know
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When is Easter, Ash Wednesday, Lent? Your guide to 2025 holy days
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 resurrection. After sunset, the Easter Vigil is often celebrated it is a a liturgical tradition that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
When is Ash Wednesday in 2025? What to know about the Christian observance
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.
When is Easter 2025? When does fasting begin? Ash Wednesday, Lent and other dates
Easter is Sunday, April 20. That's 69 days from Monday, Feb. 10. Lent, a 40-day period of prayer and fasting in Christian religions, begins on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, and ends on Thursday ...
Why is Easter 2025 so late? Here are the dates for Easter, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday
Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, falls on April 18, 2025. The holiday remembers the day that Jesus Christ suffered and died, rising three days later on Easter Sunday.
When is Ash Wednesday 2025? What to know as Christians begin Lent leading up to Easter
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, an important time for Christians leading up to Easter. Here's what to know.
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Fasting and Abstinence during Lent
Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time ... that the Catholic would speak ...
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When is Easter 2025? Here's what to know about Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and Lent
According to Christian teachings, Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried and on the third day after his death — Easter ...
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This Lent, why not extend the limits of your empathy?
When times seem uncertain, as they do currently, both globally and nationally, it is, perhaps, important to discover new and ...
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Lent, Easter, Passover in 2025: When are the spring holidays in Christian, Jewish faiths?
People who observe Lent do so to honor what is said in the Bible to be Jesus' 40 days fasting in the desert ... It is also common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from eating meat ...
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Catholic Connection to Groundhog Day
If Candlemas be fair and bright, winter has another flight. If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, winter will not come ...