Lent is a holy time celebrated in the Christian calendar, and the dates change every year. Find out when the event that leads up to Easter Sunday starts and when Lent ends in 2024.
Easter Sunday marks the end of Holy Week, the end of Lent, and the last day of the Easter Triduum (starting from the evening of Maundy Thursday through Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday), as well as the beginning of the Easter season of the liturgical year. Where Did the W...
When the Catholic and Orthodox churches separated in the 11th century, both churches calculated the date of Easter in the same way. However, the Catholic...Easter & Passover
CatholicStraightAnswers.comexplains: “Eventually, the use of ashes was adapted to mark the beginning of Lent, the 40-day preparation period (not including Sundays) for Easter. The ritual for the ‘Day of Ashes’ is found in the earliest editions of the Gregorian Sacramentary which dates at ...
In the year 373 AD, a feast honoring all “saints” who were martyred for practicing Christianity occurred. During the early years of celebration, the feast was held around the time of theEasterseason. “The first reference to a general feast celebrating all saints occurs in St. Ephrem theSy...
Eventually Augustine ended up in Rome where he taught rhetoric and was wooed into the Catholic faith. There he was catechized under St. Ambrose and was baptized at the Great Vigil of Easter in 387. Shortly thereafter Augustine returned to North Africa and lived a monastic life with friends....
In heavily Catholic Spain, wearing shorts or short skirts on certain holy days, like Easter and during week-longSemana Santafestivities, is considered disrespectful. And before the temperature rises to a reasonable point, even open-toe sandals or men’s tank tops can be considered uncouth. Learn...
There are times when I draw on all the power of my teachers’ college theology. Once I took it upon myself to explain the nature of the Easter Triduum to my then-five-year-old daughter, Matilda. “So Good Friday is not a Mass, you see, even though we have Communion, because there...
Mother’s Day is soon. A couple more weeks. Usually by this time, the lilies I gave Mama on Easter were starting to brown around the edges because she or I either forgot or over-loved them with water. Mama didn’t have the greenest of thumbs and she passed that gene right along to...
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