Catholic and Orthodox — fall on the same date, April 20, due to the alignment of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are and why the dates they fall on change every year. Easter ...

Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we ...

President Dallin H. Oaks says the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is “the most glorious event in history,” challenges families ...

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 ...

Lent starts Wednesday, March 5, and runs through April 17, 2025. In the Christian church, Lent is a period of spiritual reflection before Easter. In Western churches, it begins on Ash Wednesday, which ...

LDS apostle Dallin Oaks announces Easter initiative and an African American spiritual finds its way into the new hymnbook.

Easter is later than usual this year because of the way Christians calculate the timing of the holiday. The holiday with ...

Palm Sunday services, April 13 at 11 a.m. in the chapel, will be led by Army Materiel Command Chaplain (Col.) Stanton Trotter and will celebrate Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with ... fireworks, and church bells. Fireworks light up the sky in a majestic display. The crowd offers the salutation “Christós Anésti” (Christ has risen) to ...