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

Easter Sunday may still be more than two months away, but the Easter season kicks off in less than a month with the arrival ...

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 ...

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

Later that night, after sundown – because Passover began at sundown- the Holy Thursday Liturgy takes place, marking the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three ...

Holy Saturday, the Sabbath on which Jesus rested in the grave. The disciples arranged for the Passover meal, which took place after sundown on Thursday. We might call it Friday Eve, because by ...

Lent consists of six weeks leading up to Easter and ends either on Maundy Thursday (April, 17th ... ago at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 to keep it in line with the Jewish Passover and the Bible's ...

Spurred on by the fervor of the Eucharistic faith of New Yorkers, six young adult perpetual pilgrims and I, accompanied by ...

LUCKNOW, Feb 14 (Reuters) - More than 500 million people have taken a "holy dip" in sacred river waters in north India over the last four weeks as part of the Hindu Maha Kumbh festival ...

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 ...

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