No Mass is celebrated on this day, but the service of Good Friday is called the Mass of ... from Holy Thursday until the Alleluia at the Easter Vigil, as are all bells or other instruments ...

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 ...

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

Lent will run from March 5 to April 17 in 2025, ending the day before Good Friday. Easter will be celebrated on April 20 this year. In March, Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday — celebrations will ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

Easter is one of the most anticipated holidays of the year, with a season of religious observances, traditions, and celebrations leading up to the holiday, observed by millions each year. Christians ...

Lent will run from March 5 to April 17 in 2025, ending the day before Good Friday. Easter will be celebrated on April 20 this year. In March, Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday — celebrations will ...

Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are and why the dates they fall on change every year. Easter Sunday sometimes falls in late April, because the holiday is not tied to ...

Ash Wednesday falls on Wednesday, March 5 this year. In Western churches, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a period ...

Because Easter is a moveable holiday, all the holidays of the Easter season, such as Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Good Friday, move with it, which can be confusing. Here's why Easter moves ...