Easter falls on the Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. This year, the date falls in the second ...

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

Easter 2025 season will start soon with Ash Wednesday kicking off Lent. Here are all the dates to look for including Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

The Easter candle is lighted each day during Mass throughout the Paschal season until Ascension Thursday.

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover commemorates the ...

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

When determining the date of Easter, the church uses what’s known as “ecclesiastical dates,” with the spring equinox always ...

Much of the Easter season occurs in the second quarter of 2025. Nonetheless, the 47 days following Fat Tuesday will come as ...

which throughout the Easter season replaces the Old Testament reading. The reading from the Apostle Paul concerns the living out of the paschal mystery in the Church” (99). Then of course there ...

Speaking of all these Easter activities, you should definitely know when Easter falls on the calendar. It always lands on a ...

To help ease confusion, the Christian church uses a Computus table to determine the date of Easter. This year, the “Paschal Full Moon” date is April 13, and as a result Easter is on April 20.