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.

Easter 2025 season is late this year. 'Fat Tuesday' Mardi Gras will give way to Ash Wednesday and kick off the start of Lent. Here's when Lent begins ...

The observance marks the start of lent, the season leading up to Easter; it's is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with Advent, Christmas, Easter, and Ordinary ...

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life ... according to ...

Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, falls on April 18, 2025. The holiday remembers the day that Jesus Christ suffered and ...

According to the Almanac, Easter Sunday changes every year because it is fixed to a solar calendar ... in the Catholic church to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during the Lenten season ...

That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

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

Carnival in Italy is a vibrant and lively celebration held in the weeks leading up to Lent, the 40-day period of fasting and ...