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 ...
With each of these occasions shifting in date from year to year, here's what to know about the upcoming Christian holy days in 2025. This year, Easter in the Western church falls on the later end ...
This year's astronomical date of the equinox is March 20. This year, Ash Wednesday is on March 5. It is calculated to take place 40 days before Easter (not counting Sundays). Ash Wednesday is a ...
The date of Easter here is calculated using a modified Julian calendar versus the Gregorian calendar observed by the Christians and countries in the west. Good Friday is considered to be a sacred day ...