In 2025 Lent ends on April 17, known as Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. This year, Easter falls on April 20.

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Soon millions of Christians will be taking 40 days to contemplate the last days of Jesus Christ before the celebration of ...

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Lent is one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with Advent, Christmas ... prayers, and the Stations of the Cross, 14 images depicting events of Jesus' life on the day ...

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Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Walking across an empty University of Illinois campus the week after Christmas, I was reminded of an invitation I received way back in 1985 that changed my life.

Pope Francis has been hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital since mid-February, where he has been battling double pneumonia ...