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

Easter this year will be in late April, on Sunday, April 20. Easter Sunday sometimes falls in late April, because the holiday ...

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 ...

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 ...

When times seem uncertain, as they do currently, both globally and nationally, it is, perhaps, important to discover new and ...

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

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day period in which Christians ... according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. USA Today adds that during Lent, Catholics and ...

This means that Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent also change ... It is calculated to take place 40 days before Easter (not counting Sundays).

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 ...