Good Friday: Commemorating Jesus' crucifixion and death. Easter Sunday: Commemorating the resurrection of Jesus. Lent ...

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

Palm Sunday is the first day of Holy Week and commemorates Jesus' entry to Jerusalem. Lent ends on Thursday, April 17. In the ...

These holy days have been established for millennia as ... and two smaller meals not adding up to one full meal — between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Adult Catholics are expected to abstain ...

Good Friday is intended to be a day of fasting for Catholics, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, ...

This Friday marks the day that Christians commemorate as the day Jesus was crucified on the cross, to rise again two days later on Easter Sunday.

Here's the days of Holy Week and what they mean ... In Western churches, it begins on Ash Wednesday, which this year was March 5. Holy Thursday is on Thursday, April 17. Holy Thursday, or Maundy ...

Easter 2025 is this Sunday, April 20, 2025. Lent, the 40-day period of prayer and fasting before Easter, ends this Thursday, April 17, 2025. Holy Week, the most important week in Catholicism ...

With Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent behind us, Easter Sunday is right around the corner – preceded by another Christian holy day: Good Friday. Following the Lent season, when some indulge ...