Fat Tuesday and the Mardi Gras celebrations will kick off a late start to the 2025 Lenten season — from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Unlike many other holidays, the date of Easter changes ...

Lent 2025: when does it start and why do Christians observe it? - Deciding what to give up for Lent is a personal choice, ...

Here's what to know about the key dates surrounding Easter, including Fat Tuesday, Lent and Good Friday. Easter will be Sunday, April 20, 2025. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

16 February, Proper 2: Jeremiah 17.5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15.12-20; Luke 6.17-26 LUKE’s version of Jesus’s Beatitudes (or “blessings”) challenges the more famous version recorded in Matthew (5.1 ...

9 February, Proper 1: Isaiah 6.1-8 (9-end); Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15.1-11; Luke 5.1-11 IN THIS Gospel, Simon responds to Jesus as he does, not because of a realisation at that moment (15.8), but ...

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on the cross, per BBC.

The observance marks the start of lent, the season leading up to Easter ... or 40 days excluding Sundays, before Easter Sunday. Easter is a moveable holiday, meaning Ash Wednesday moves with ...

Lent (a season of spiritual renewal) came early this year. Tony Campolo tells a parable of a boring, little town that decided to hold a footrace. One man fell to his knees, crying, ‘I have crossed the ...

It also marks the beginning of the countdown toward Easter, as people that practice the religion will also be observing Lent leading up ... the previous year's Palm Sunday, which are burned ...

Hall of Fame receiver Randy Moss, who took a hiatus from ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" to receive treatment for cancer, will return to the show on Super Bowl Sunday. Moss, 47, stepped away as an ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter, the ...