Ash Wednesday and Lent happen this year. This year, Easter Sunday is observed on Sunday, April 20. Easter is the holiest day in the Christian calendar, observing the day Jesus Christ resurrected ...

Lent is the period of six weeks (40 days not including Sundays) leading up to Easter, the most important festival in the Christian calendar. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday. The last week of Lent is ...

It’s Just Going Underground Letting the calendar reorder life. ‘I must admit, that in contemporary seasons, Lent has a way of coming and going,” National Review founder William F.

This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in March ... The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, a solar calendar that was used by the Roman Empire. This year, Easter ...